Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 17, January-June 1998, year 27, p. 128.
The January-June 1998 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains six (6) articles.
S. Agouridis examines the issue of the calling of the twelve apostles, the names, the mission as well as the terrible difficulties they will encounter in their missionary work, the way it appears in chapter 10 of Matthew's gospel. In this frame, the writer presents the thematology of the chapter and the deeper problems of Matthew's Church that made its writing and its placing in the specific context of the gospel imperative.
D. Kaimakis deals with certain translation problems of the text of the O' in the new Greek language and presents the data that characterize the content and the language of the text and the data that make its translation particularly difficult. He places particular emphasis on the problems that arise from the perspective of the verb and the use of the infinitive and the participle.
I. Karavidopoulos presents certain new directions and trends of the Biblical Hermeneutic that are noted from the decade of the '70s and onwards. Those that are presented here are the ones that have been created mainly by liberal biblical theologians as a result of the criticism they made on the dominant historical-critical method. In this frame, there is a reference to the rhetorical analysis of biblical texts, the narrative analysis – narratology, the reader's response method and, finally, the method of deconstruction. At the end of his article, the writer makes a short general assessment of the newer post-structuralist hermeneutic trends.
D. Arkadas refers to the issue of the eschatology of John's gospel and the levels through which it develops. In this frame, there is first talk of the historical version and the post-historical perspective of John's eschatology and the new eschatological center, in which the believer lives the partly and expects the catholic-situation of “engagement”. The writer tries to detect this “liturgical eschatology”and the liturgical character of John's gospel, the way these are presented in the eschatological facts of the Second Coming, the Resurrection and eternal life as well as the Judgement.
The text of T. Dune consists of the “conclusions” of a broader study of his on Rom. 15, 19.
G. Rigopoulos, hermeneutically approaching John 12, 20-26, moves on to the investigation of the relationship between Jesus and the “Greeks”. In this frame, he initially examines the meaning and use of the term “Greek” in the O. T. (O') and in the N. T. and presents the views of the Fathers and younger interpreters on who D' evangelist implies as “Greeks” in John 12, 20. Next, the writer turns his interest on Jesus' answer so that the meaning of the term and the significance of Jesus' attitude towards the “Greeks” may be understood. The article continues in the BBS, vol. 18, Jan.-June 1999, year 28, pp. 40-52.
Following are the book reviews of Chr. Karakolis, S. Agouridis and I. Karavidopoulos.