Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 5, July-December 1986, year 15, p. 100.

    The July-December 1986 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains four (4) articles.

    S. Agouridis presents the quest of the “Historical Jesus” by the recent European thought. In this frame, he refers to the causes, the starting principles and the results of this quest through a short and comprehensive presentation of the works and thoughts of a range of contemporary European intellectuals who have dealt with it. Agouridis closes his text with some thoughts on the importance of the whole venture for the Church today.

    I. de la Potterie goes further to a synthetic presentation of the history of exegesis in order to show on the one hand that the ancient Tradition, that of the Fathers and the medieval one, has always maintained that the ultimate purpose of the Christian exegetic is the reading of the Holy Scripture “in the Spirit” (εντωΠνεύματι), that is the accomplishment of its “spiritual understanding” and on the other hand that this balance was disrupted in the years of modern times. Finally, he presents the direction to which the efforts to recompose the “Christiansynthesis” on a more critical basis are oriented today.

   D. Obelenskys tries to prove that the founders and architects of the kyrillian-methodian tradition, that is Kyrillos and Methodios themselves in the beginning and afterwards their students and followers in the Middle Ages, asked to explain and give reasons for their Byzantine mission at the Slavs with arguments taken indirectly or directly from the Holy Scripture.

   S. Agouridis first in the introduction examines and analyzes concisely the significance of the myth, history and theology that are found in the narratives of ch. 1-11 of the book of Genesis and explains their interweaving and their importance for the correct interpretation of the specific chapters. Then he starts the extensive analysis of biblical narratives. This begins with the explanation of the creation of the world with the analysis of the two narratives about creation, Gen. 1,1-2,25. At this point, he provides some data for both and then the extensive commentary on the first narrative continues. The article is continued at the next issue of the BBS.

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