Bulletin of Biblical Studies, 14, Volume 4, January - June 1985, pp. 80.
The volume January - June of 1985 of Bulletin of Biblical Studies includes three (3) articles.
S. Agouridis in his article presents the three important phases of the research and study of the Bible, particularly of the New Testament, as well as the new prospects that they offer these new hermeneutical approaches/ methods. He starts with the Literal and Historical Method which aims to a literal analysis of the biblical text, as a whole or in parts, as well as to a deeper understanding of its particular historical context. Then, he presents the Form Criticism School, which investigates the texts in their final written form through a literal and historical interpretation although it recognises in them various other written sources. Finally, he analyses Redaction Criticism of the New Testament, which begins with the conclusions of Form Criticism research and seeks to find in each text what is the meaning that writer gives to it, according to his general theological plan. The study ends with the conclusions about the benefits of these methods for the modern Christian and the church.
O.Hofius examines the significance that Paul gives in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a process of expiation and reconciliation (Rom. 5,8-10). From the beginning, the writer reverses the opinion that wants Paul to see the crucifixion of Christ as an expiatory sacrifice, which the Son of God representatively offered for the sinful in front of God and for the God. Afterwards he analyses his opinion that Paul sees the death of Christ not as a mean for reconciliation, but as an achievement, not as a possibility, but as a realisation. Expiation and reconciliation are gifts of God and consequently in their coexistence they are the two sides of one coin that is the sacrifice on the Cross. This opinion of the writer is based on the continuity and discontinuity between the Old Testament meaning of expiation and the teaching of Paul for reconciliation and expiation.
V.Makrides attempts to explain certain fundamental points of Mk. 11,27-33 and he analyses its historical background.
At the end there are reviews of foreigner and Greek books relative with the biblical science.