Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 15, July-December 1996, year 25, p. 112.
The July-December 1996 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains seven (7) articles.
D. Kaimakis presents the sense of faith in the O. T., as this is not identified with its corresponding image in the N. T.. For the fuller understanding of the sense of faith in the O. T. the writer presents some old-testament unities that refer to it and to its content.
R. O'Toole attempts to pinpoint the sense of “authenticity” in the context of Luke's theology, to totally regard his way of dealing with it and to clarify the role of the Holy Spirit. In order to achieve his goal the writer initially examines Luke's view on the Church and then the total of the ways this sense was dealt with in the different forms of “authenticity” (for missionary action, the performing of miracles, the appointment of successors, the taking of the necessary for the community decisions, baptism and the eating of the holy bread) and its significance as well as who performs it and in which way.
I. Stefoulis, in the frame of a comparative approach, examines the similarities and differences between the ancient Greek “hereditary” Law and the one of the O. T.. Thus, focusing on the issue of hereditary succession, but also on the hereditary ranks, he presents the influences from the common customary mediterranean Law these two Laws have received, which integrated or rejected elements according to the special regional needs and dominant social structures.
A. Okorie presents the Judean understanding of marriage, divorce and second marriage in the time of the N. T.. His apprroach takes place in the context of the investigation of the customs the first Christian community of Jerusalem adopted from its Judean environment, from which it came, for that matter, even though each of these customs were valid only after their reinterpretation by Jesus' teaching.
The article of C. Caragounis on Erasmus' mistakes and the non-Greek accent of the erasmic Greek is continued from the previous issue of the BBS. In this second part, the writer deals with the pronunciation of consonants, prosody, the regional accent, breaths and finishes with the conclusions of his study.
R. Scognamiglio presents the views of the Pope of Rome st. Gregory the Great on the sense of authentticity inside the Church in the years of the N. T., mainly as these are expressed in the work of Liber Regulae Pastoralis.
S. Agouridis refers in a short exegetical approach to the theme of authenticity, the way it is presented in the D gospel. In this context, he describes first the important meaning the twelve apostles have in the specific gospel and, secondly, the more likely meaning of the relationship between Peter and John for the understanding of authenticity in John's ecclesiastical community.