Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 7, July-December 1988, year 17, p.110.
The July-December 1988 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains five (5) articles.
S. Agouridis examines the Letters A΄ and B΄ to the people of Thessalonikiby ap. Paul as the type of paulian eschatological admonition. The writer seeks the causes that led the people of Thessaloniki to their peculiar positions and analyses thoroughly so much Paul’s positions as the ones of the people of Thessaloniki, regarding the eschatological expectation of Jesus’ glorious Coming.
Father C. Coman, on the pretext of the anniversary of the celebration of the three hundred years since the edition of the first translation of the Holy Scripture in the Rumanian language, known as “The Bucharest Bible” or “The 1688 Bible” or “Serban’s Bible”, presents its history. First, the writer describes all those social, political and cultural workings, which led to the translation of the Bible in the late 17th century and then he gives some technical information about that particular edition. A short analysis of the role of the translation for the Rumanian nation and language and of the history of the following Rumanian translations comes next.
D. Adamo moves on to an analytical presentation of the data in ch. 1-4 of Letter A΄ to the Corinthians, proving the importance that the teaching on wisdom has for paulian Christology. In this context, the writer initially presents the very start of the paulian terminology as regards the meaning of “wisdom” and next he highlights the importance of wisdom in paulian Christology, emphasizing the liberty with which he makes use of the Greek, Hebrew and Gnostic terminology to support the Corinthians in his Christology.
S. Agouridis presents in Greek translation the falsely attributed Gnostic Gospel of Philip. Brief comments referring to the finding and origin of the Gospel, as well as to its Gnostic character precede the Greek text.
Father I. Skiadaresis’ text constitutes the second and last part of the article about the books of Genesis and Revelation. The first part of the article is found in the previous issue of BBS. The writer, continuing here the analytical examination of the relationship between the thematology and typology of Revelation and Genesis, always with regard to the central issue: Creation-history-eschata, finally concludes that in the general spiritual fortune of John the book of Genesis had a prominent position and that by using figures and symbols of Genesis and also by transcending its facts, Revelation visually projects the life of eschata as the perfect realization “in Christ” of what was not realized in the garden of Eden.
The Chronicles of the issue come next. I. Karavidopoulos describes the works of the 43rd General Assembly of Studiorum Novi Testament Societas that took place in Cambridge, Great Britain from the 8th until the 12th of August 1988 and of the 38th Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniese that took place in Louvain, Belgium from the 16th until the 18th of August 1988 with the topic: “The gospel of Lord Jesus (B΄ Thes. 1,8)”. S. Agouridis describes the manifestations for the panegyric anniversary of the 300 years since the translation of the Holy Scripture in Rumanian and the works of the E΄ Gathering of Orthodox Biblical Theologians from the 26th until the 30th of October 1988 with the topic of The Apostles’ Acts.