Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 8, July-December 1989, year 18, p. 120.
The July-December 1989 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains three (3) articles.
G. Rigopoulos moves on to a hermeneutic approach of the meaning of the term “shepherd”. In the introduction of his study, the writer examines the meaning of the term for the ancient eastern people and especially for the ancient Egyptians and Greeks on the one hand and for ancient Israel and the later Judaism on the other. Next, he examines the text in ch. 10 of John’s gospel, focusing on the literature problem of the chapter, presenting the views of younger researchers and on the literature genre of John 10, 1-5 and the problem of John’s term “proverb” (John 10, 1-5). Finally, Rigopoulos goes on to the hermeneutic approach of the text. In this context, he examines the meaning of the term “shepherd” in the synoptic gospels, John’s “proverb”, the characterization of Jesus as “shepherd of sheep” (John 10, 17), the Christology of John 10, 11, the missionary perspective of John 10, 16 and the eschatological dimension of the meaning of “shepherd” as this unfolds in the Apocalypse, especially in 5, 6 and 7, 17.
G. Sarigiannis examines the racial subdivisions and the urban planning terms in the ancient Hebrews according to the Hebrew prototype and the translation of the O. At the introduction Sarigiannis presents the historic and linguistic frame of the ancient Hebrews and the importance and structure of their nomadic life. In the first part of his paper, he examines the racial terms and racial subdivisions, such as “house”, “house of lineage”, “Generation”, “race” and “Nation” that Hebrews used, the way they appear in the prototype Hebrew text and in the translation of the O. In the second part, he analyses the urban planning terms in the Hebrew prototype from the time of nomadic cataclysms until the city dwelling of the Hebrews and the urban planning terms that appear in the translation of the O. Finally, he examines the relationship between the Semitic and Indo-European words and meanings concerning the racial subdivisions and the urban planning terms.
E. Obeng goes on to the explanation of Rom. 8, 26. In this context, he particularly examines how the Holy Spirit helps people with their weakness, the way we pray and, finally, the way the Holy Spirit mediates to God for our sake. The study closes with the analysis of the meaning of the passage for the modern churches in Africa and the way modern African Christians ought to pray.
The Chronicles of the issue come next, where the proceedings and the content of the recommendations of the XII Colloquium Ecumenicum Paulinum that took place from the 25th until the 30th of September 1989 in the Monastery of St. Paul in Rome under the topic: “Defense and founding of the apostolic axiom” (B Kor. ch. 10-13).
Following are reviews of S. Agouridis of foreign and Greek books.