Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 14, January-June 1995, year 24, p. 102.
The January-June 1995 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains six (6) articles.
S. Agouridis attempts an examination of the religion of the Hebrew forefathers through the presentation of the narrations that outline it and the views of contemporary researchers.
G. Stanton presents the relative to Matthew's gospel research-annotation that was especially developed during the last decade. He divides his material in three categories: the main critical memos, the medium-sized memos-abridged, which he divides in two subcategories, that is, those that are written in a philological perspective and those that focus the attention on the revision and the historical-critical observations and, finally, the smaller memos.
O. Hofius initially analyses the idea of the liturgical communion of angels and men in the different liturgies of the East and West and then he shows that this idea is a characteristic issue, which originates from the view of the history of tradition in the O. T. and which can later be located in the literature of ancient Judaism as well as in some testimonies of the N. T..
A. Okorie analyses the importance and teaching of the ethical works by ap. Paul , the way it is presented in his A' and B' Letters to the people of Thessaloniki. The hermeneutic analysis of the passages of the Letters is preceded by a general reference to the paulian ethics.
G. Rigopoulos attempts a hermeneutic approach to one of the manifestations of the Divine Economy, the on God's behalf “economic” election of idolater kings and people as His organs for the realization of His sotiriological plan, based mainly on the hermeneutic tradition of the Fathers and ecclesiastical writers and also making a short reference to the most important contemporary hermeneutic views. In the first part of his article, as this continues in the next issue of the BBS, the writer moves on to the notional investigation of the terms “Economy” and “Divine Economy”, presents the testimonies of the H. S. about the Divine Economy and its regard by the fathers.
He briefly presents the new role of computers in the biblical science and especially in the studies for the O. T.. There is a special reference to the first electronic bibliographic catalogue for the studies in the O. T., the content of which is presented here.
The Chronicles of the issue come next. I. Karavidopoulos describes the proceedings of the international convention of the “Company for the study of the occult christian literature” that took place in Lausanne from the 22nd until the 25th of March 1995.
S. Agouridis signs the obituary of G. Strecker.
Following are the book reviews of the issue.