Bulletin of Biblical Studies, Volume 1, January - June 1980, issue 1, pp. 87.
The volume January - June 1979 of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains six (6) articles.
The first article in this volume is the significant introduction ofX.Léon-Dufour andP.Grêlot inVocabulairede Theologie Biblique (Dictionary of Biblical Theology) which was translated in Greek and published in 1979. The writers analyse on one side the significance of Biblical Theology and explain the importance and the need of the existence of the Dictionary and they offer on the other side a concise review of the literal history of the Bible.
G. Kornarakis, by taking into consideration the psychiatric term “petrifaction” (απολίθωση), which was proposed by the psychiatristR.D.Laing, and the meaning of terms “column of salt” , he analyses the source of the two words, that is Gen 19,12-26 and he proposes that the “cluster of “column of salt”” is based on the psychological depth of the particular biblical narration.
Ph.Bird raises a line of questions which are related with the modern interpretation of the Bible and mainly with the vital question of the gap between the ancient world of the Bible and the modern Western reader. In this frame she explains and analyses the concrete basic modern feminist tendencies that prevail in the frame of the interpretation of the Bible, but also she presents a line of radical reactions toward Bible and its hermeneutical tradition.
N.Neage describes some certain sides of a continuously renewed effort of the interpretation of the Bible in the Orthodox Romanian Church. He analyses the frame in which Bible was connected with the life of Romanians, their language and their culture and he mainly insists on the role that Bible played and it continues to play in their history, their education and their daily life. The writer describes all these in relation to the editorial and translational efforts of the Bible in Romania.
I. Tsagalidis compares the text of the Epistle to Jews in the two publications of Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1904 and that ofE.Nestle -K.Aland 1975. At the beginning the writer comments on the subject of the criticism of the text, the form of the text in the Epistle to Jews with regard to the manu scriptural tradition and finally on the publication of Ecumenical Patriarchate. Later he presents the small differences between the two publications. He divides the differences according to their source. Thus, he examines the differences that came out of changes, explanations, corrections and as a result of the influence of the Old Testament, the normality of grammar and of unnecessary pleonasm.
J. Karavidopoulos presents, with the form of a book review, the 26th Nestle -Aland publication of the New Testament textand he analyses the new elements of that publication.