Bulletin of Biblical Studies, 3, Volume 1, June 1972, pp. 189-285.
The 3rd volume, June 1972, of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains four (4) articles.
J. Karavidopoulos goes into a literal-critical and hermeneutical analysis of Lk. 23, 33-49, which concerns the passion of the ‘servant’ of God on the Cross. In this frame, the writer examines the question of the sources of the third Gospel for the particular verse, the description of the Crucifixion of Jesus as the completion of the hymns of Isaias for the suffering ‘servant’ of God and the question of the precise time of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Ch. Bulgaris attempts a historical presentation of biblical research with regard to Gospel of Luke and the Acts, which he separates it in five periods. In the first part of his article, he examines the first phase/period of research that begins in the second century and ends in eighteenth century. Afterwards, he refers to the School of Tubingen. Then he makes a presentationof M.Dibelius and his work, which was a new departure in the theological research in the beginnings of 20th century. This first part of article closes with the presentation of researchers that continued the work and the method ofM.Dibelius.
G. Rigopoulos attempts the interpretation of the phrase “the Star the bright and morning” with which characterized Jesus Christ in Rev. 22, 16b. The writer attempts a religious investigation of the meaning of the term ‘star’ in the pre-Christian traditions, while he examines the meaning of the term “ star” in the Old Testament, in the Apocrypha of Old Testament and the manuscripts of Dead Sea, in the New Testament and finally in the book of Revelation. At the end, analyses the content of the term “the Star the bright and morning” in the Revelation and the term “Star, Jesus, Christ” as a source of inspiration in Hymnology and the iconography of Orthodox Church.
S. Agouridis attempts a Modern Greek interpretation of “the Will of Abraham” according to the unpublished manuscript of the Historical File of Holy Metropolis of Sparta that brings the title “Speech devout and remarkable of Saint and just Abraham”. Before the translation there are introductory comments that concern the older and the recent publications of the text, its literal type, its content, its translations, as well as some explanatory questions that occupied the international scientific community.
In the chronicles of the volume, S. Agouridis describes analytically the work and the conclusions of 22nd Symposium ofJournees Biblique de Louvain that took place from 32 August until 2 September in the College of Pope Adriano theVI. The congress had as theme “the Gospel of Mark”.
J. Panagopoulos describes analytically the chronicles of the first Congress of Orthodox Hermeneutical Theology that took place in Athens, from 7 to 12 May 1972 and he gives shortly the content of proposals that were announced. At the end of chronicles placed the official statement that was voted in the congress in Greek and English.
Some book reviews follow written by J. Panagopoulos inWolfgangSchrage,DieChristenundderStaatnachdemNeuenTestament, 1971 and J. Karavidopoulos inCharlesMasson,L'EvangiledeMarcetlEglisedeRome, 1968 andEtaLinnemann,StudienzurPassionwgeschichte, 1970.