Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 12, June-December 1992, year 21, p. 78.

   The June- December 1992 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains five (5) articles.

   S. Agouridis goes on to an analytical explanation of passage Gauls 2, 11-21, where the episode between apostles Peter and Paul in Antioch is described. The writer deals with almost all the big issues that concern the passage, such as the one of the relationship between the two apostles, the problem of the relations among the Judean-like Christians and the ones of other nations, Paul’s teaching on faith and works, but also with the interpretation of each verse separately.

   V. Nikopoulos examines the legal sense of engagement in the Letters of ap. Paul. The apostle used this concept so as to confirm the constitution of God’s agreement with man for the salvation of the latter. In this frame of the analysis of the analogical application of the engagement by Paul in the sotiriological field (=the field of salvation), the writer examines all the cases where Paul makes use of this particular concept.

   D. Adamo presents the concept of ecumenicality in Jonas’s book. The writer first presents how intense the struggle between Judean exclusivity and ecumenism was in Judaism from the time of Esdra-Neemia and after. Then, he examines who the writer of Jonas’s prophesy is and when it was written. Next comes the analysis of the purpose for which the specific text was written and the meaning of its message and it is stressed that whichever interpretation is used for the understanding of Jonas’s book, the sense of God’s love emerges in it unlimited, broad and deep enough so as to include the nations Israel hated, thus projecting an important and unknown until then ecumenism.

   S. Tsitsigos shortly examines the content of the work of the Seven Deacons and maintains that their election for the taking care of the common messes should be considered as a totally transitory and temporary work for the assistance of the apostles and not as a permanent and special ecclesiastic axiom.

   I. Karavidopoulos presents in a concise way some of the contrasting views of various researchers about the secret Gospel of Peter. These views concern the relationship of the text with the formal Gospels, the docetic (δοκητικό) or not character of the Gospel and the place and time the text was written.

   Following are the book reviews of the issue.