Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 12, July-December 1993, year 22, p. 84.
The July-December 1993 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains four (4) articles.
S. Agouridis presents the entry of the Israelites in the land of Canaan and how this affected the behavior of the first and how this behavior functioned in the relationship between Yahweh and Baal. The writer initially analyses the intrusion and conquest of Palestine as it appears in biblical texts and according to archeological findings. Next, he analyses the theological issue that arises from the entry of the Israelites in Palestine, which involves the ferocity of the conquest, the image of the conquered people and mainly their religion. Agouridis’ article closes with a reference to the influence of the people of Canaan on the Israelites, as far as the prophesy and kingship are concerned.
A. Vanhoye presents the history of the “Pontific Biblical Committee”. In the first part of his article, he provides with sufficient detail the history and the work of the committee since its establishment in 1902, presenting all those changes that took place in its interior and its character. In the second part, he provides the history and the work of the “Committee” from 1971 and onwards, since that is the time when new rules for its organization and function were set up so that its action might be more prolific for the Church and better adjusted to the new conditions.
J. Enuwosa examines the nature of Jesus’ death in Luke’s sotiriology. In this context, the writer examines Luke’s terminology and sources so as to emphasize the meaning of the cross in his theology and then he moves on to the analysis of the nature of Luke’s sotiriology about the cross in a rational exegetic approach. The essential purpose of the writer is to underline the real value of Jesus’ death for Luke’s work, based on the assumption of a paper in which Luke did not attribute any redemptive and evolutionary sense to Jesus’ death.
S. Agouridis provides an informative short notice on the proceedings of the Z΄ Gathering of the Orthodox Biblical Theologians that took place in Bucharest from the 25th until the 30th of September 1993. The detailed program of the Gathering comes next.
Finally, D. Dritsas makes a thematic-notional arrangement of the contents of the BBS from June 1971 until June 1993. He classifies the various articles of the journal as hermeneutic O. T., theological O. T., hermeneutic N. T., theological N. T., Christological H. S., ecclesiological-patrological, conventions of Biblical Theology-Hermeneutic and under various topics with historic-cultural content.