Bulletin of Biblical Studies, Vol. 4, December 1976, issue 2, pp. 146-216.
The 2nd issue the 4th volume, December 1975, of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains three (3) articles.
Ath. Chastoupis attempts the translation of “Taksi tis Omigyreos” from the Qumran manuscripts. Brief introductory comments with regard to the history of the manuscript, its content and relation with the “order of the community” precede the translation. In the footnotes translation text there is a number of explanatory and clarification comments.
G. Rigopoulos examines the significance of the allegory of “the real vine”. In this frame, initially he explores the allegorical regard of “vine” in the O.T. texts, its eschatological sight of the same texts, its allegorical view of the Apocrypha of the O.T. and the middle-N.T. Jewish literature and finally, its allegorical view of the N.T. As far as the N.T. is concerned, the writer first examines the allegory of “the vine” in the Synoptic Gospels and secondly in John 15,1-17, making particular reference in the ecclesiological dimension of the allegory of the above mentioned passage. The article closes with the comment on the eucharistic character of the allegory of “the vine” and its eschatological extension.
G. Papatzanakis examines the linguistic form of the N.T. christological hymns, their christology and place in the liturgical tradition of the church. In the end, the writer concludes that these hymns are catechistical affirmations of faith of the early christian community, that they serve the unity of the initial preaching, that they have their own particular linguistic character, as they serve the needs of worship, and finally, that the particular hymns had soteriological importance in the tradition of Church.
The Chronicles of the volume follow. S. Agouridis exposes briefly the work of the 31st Meeting of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas that was actualized in Duke University in Durham of V. Carolina of USA from 16 up to 20 August 1976 and the work of 5th Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum that took place in the Basilica of Saint Paul of Rome from 28 September up to 3 October 1976 and whose subject was 1Cor., 1-4.
Book-reviews follow: Philipp Vielhauer, Geschichteder urchristlichen Literatur.Einleitung in das Neue Testament,die Apokryphen und die Apostolischen Vaeter, 1975, Georgiou Papakyriakopoulou, Matthew Gospel (Miracles and parables from the other Evangelists)· Translation in the demotic, 1976, Felix Christ, JesusSophia:DieSophia-Christologiebei des Synoptikern, 1970, J.A.T. Robinson, Redating the New Testament, 1976, Oscar Cullman, The Johannine Circle.Its place in Judaism, among the disciples of Jesus and in early Christianity. A study in the origin of the Gospel of John, 1976 and L. Goppelt, Theologie des Neuen Testaments. I. Jesu Wirken in seiner theologischen Bedeutung, 1975.
Finally, there is the obituary on Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) by I. Karavidopoulos. He presents briefly the life, work and main thesis of Bultmann making a special reference on the “of demythologization preaching of the N.T.”