Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 19, July-December 2000, year 29, p. 144.
The July-December 2000 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains seven (7) articles.
P. Vassiliadis, referring to the end of the classical historical-critical method, makes a short retrospection to the history of the science of Theology of the N. T. and the speculation that developed about it and moves on to an appraisal of the successive transition from the pre-modern to the modern and from there on to the post-modern always with regard to this science. Finally, he presents the “new paradigm” that he proposes for the Theology of the N. T..
D. Passakos, approaching the issue of the common first-christian suppers and the dynamics and consequences they created, focuses his attention on Luke 14, 15-24 and investigates the self-conscious problem due to the conflict between the Judean-like and the former ethnic Christians that Luke's community had to face on the issue of the perfect communion during Eucharist between the two groups.
D. Rudman, referring to the creation of the world according to the O. T., analyzes the significance of the different concepts that are connected to the narrations about creation. In this frame, he examines the importance of the sea and the dragon, the light and the dark as well as of death.
K. Nikolakopoulos investigates the use and meaning of the terms psalm-hymn-ode in the devotional terminology of the early Christian years, the way these appear mainly in the Letters of Paul and presents some basic hermeneutic thoughts of st. Gregory of Nyssa about these terms and their place in the adoration both in the first Church and in the 4th cent..
S. Agouridis deals with the 10th ch. of the D' gospel and the difficulties that arise for its interpretation because of the classification of the material that is included in the specific chapter as well as the more general purpose it fulfils in its context.
M. G. Michael grammatically examines whether the number of the beast that is mentioned in John's Revelation is 666 or 616.
V. Nikopoulos presents the legal thinking of ap. Paul in his teaching about vindication and stresses that Paul treats man's vindication by God as a complex legal act, which evolves on the basis of certain institutions and concepts, the function of which, appropriately adjusted to the sotiriological field, helps to the evolution and completion of the whole case of the vindication, which is a legal act. In this frame, there is a special analysis of the legal concepts of freedom, of adoption and inheritance, on which the teaching of ap. Paul is based.
Next follows the review of Chr. Karakolis on the book of H.-Ch. Kammler, Christologie und Eschatologie: Joh 5, 17-30 als Schluesseltext johanneischer Theologie (WUNT 126), Tuebingen 2000 and of M. Goutzioudis on the book of D. DeSilva, Perseverance in Gratitude. A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Michigan 2000.