Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol.13, July-December 1994, year 23, p.112.
The July-December 1994 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains six (6) articles.
S. Agouridis presents some basic characteristics of the Mosaic religion. First, he gives some introductory data about the religion and the problem of the person and history of Moses. Next, in the main body of the text, he presents a diagram of the historical facts, the way he thinks they happened, so that the mosaic may be understood as the historical starting step in the appearance and evolution of the O. T. religion.
E. Kasselouri maintains that the narration of Peter’s confession (Matthew 16, par. 13-20) and the myrrh ointment of Jesus (Matthew 26, par. 6-13) are expressions of the same fact, that is the confession of Jesus’ messianic character, which is connected to the Pathos, the humility and the cross, but are expressed in different ways, the first with words and the second with action. The negotiation of the issue takes place through the analysis of the two narratives that all the evangelists mention.
K. Nikolakopoulos examines the hymnological parts of Matthew’s gospel. In this context, he touches on the section of the hymnological items of the specific gospel, on the issue of the rhetoric of prose works, such as the N. T., and especially of the above mentioned items and, finally, he attempts a deeper notional elaboration of the rhetoric elements of the items. The essential purpose of his study is the evaluation of the parts so that an approach of the deeper meaning of the expressed words they contain may be realized.
The article of G. Rigopoulos consists the second and last part of his study for the paradox of faith, the way it appears in John 12, 36b-43. The writer continues here the presentation of the hermeneutic positions of the fathers in verses 39-43. The article closes with Rigopoulos’ underpinnings.
A. Okorie presents the polemic of Luke’s gospel against wealth. In order to analyze and explain this on principle attitude of Luke, he presents nineteen of his passages, where this polemic of wealth and the rich becomes evident.
K. Tsitsigos examines in a historical-literature way the existence and the duties in chronological order of the hieratic deacons of A΄Τimothy, of the “striplings” of the Acts and the “juniors” of Matthew’s gospel, comparing them, so as to find some similarity and from this to conclude the origin.
The issue closes with the book reviews of the issue.