Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 15, January-June 1996, year 25, p. 92.
The January-June 1996 issue of the Bulletin of Bilblical Studies contains seven (7) articles.
Father K. Papadopoulos refers with great brevity to the syntactic similarities between the recent greek language and the language of the N. T..
L. Stuckenbruck examines the kind and the form of Christ's angelic characteristics, the way these are mentioned in John's Revelation and analyzes the presentation of the “son of man” as “elder of the days”, after he explains first these terms that are expounded in ch. 7 of Daniel and have affected the theological thought of John.
The article of G. Rigopoulos continues from the previous issue of the BBS. In this third part of the article, he testifies, on the one hand, the historical data, the testimony of the O. T., the interpretation of the fathers and the contemporary hermeneutic views on Nabuchodonosor and Kyrus. On the other hand, he attempts to investigate God's ultimate purpose when He used the Pharaoh, Nabuchodonosor and Kyrus so that they should play an important role in the history of Israel.
A. Destro and M. Pesce attempt through an anthropological-sociological consideration the understanding of the “situation” of transition that characterizes the ecclesiastical communities of ap. Paul, the way he envisaged them himself. In this frame, they examine the “limitation” and the “fulfillment” of the Church, that is the two contemporary and intersecting processes of keeping a distance from the world and opening up to it.
S. Ademiluka goes on to a comparative work of the narrations of African myths for the creation and those of ch. 3 of the book of Genesis in a perspective of re-examination of the dogma of man's fall under the light of African mythology.
C. Caragounis examines the mistakes of Erasmus' work and of the non-greek accent of the erasmic accent. In this frame, he presents Erasmus' mistakes, the historical background on which the erasmic accent was relied and established and, finally, he mentions the historical accent of greek, focusing on the criteria that determine their correct accent. In this first part of his article, he talks about vowels and diphthongs. The second part is found in the next issue of the BBS.
G. Velisiotis presents certain new books from the international publishing market that are mentioned in the field of the science of the O. T..
At the end of the issue the 8th Synaxis of the Orthodox Biblical Theologians that took place in Nesebar, Bulgaria from the 10th until the 15th of September 1995 is presented. The Synaxis was devoted to the memory of Professor Vasilis Tsakonas and had as its topic the Letter to the Gauls.