Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 6, July-December 1987, year 16, p. 78.
The July-December 1987 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains three (3) articles.
The text of S. Agouridis continues from the previous issue. The third chapter of his study starts here, where he examines narrations from Genesis, referring to the time before the cataclysm. In this context, he analyses the interweaving of myth, history and theology in the narrations about Cain and Abel, Enoch and, finally, the fall of the Angels and the Giants. The fourth chapter of his study comes next, where he refers to Noah’s cataclysm. The article continues at the next issue of the BBS.
A. Theocharis studies the sense of biblical and apocalyptic wisdom in the book of Jobileum, which belongs to the pro-christian Judean literature.
Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios writes about certain political positions that are expressed on the political scene of America and are intensely influenced by eschatological interpretations of prophesies in the Old and New Testament. The writer initially describes part of the apocalyptic vision of millions of Christians in America and especially the ideas about the “utmost sorrow”, “Armageddon” and the “abduction”. Next, he refers to the opinion of American President Regan on the issue of “Armageddon” and the way his politics on the nuclear issue is affected by eschatological biblical prophesies as much as by the over-conservative Christians of America, who adopt and promote the above ideas.
Following are reviews of foreign books about the biblical science and research.