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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 22^nd until the 25^th of March 1995.

          S. Agouridis signs the obituary of G. Strecker.

          Following are the book reviews of the issue.

Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 14, July-December 1995, year 24, p. 116.

      The July-December 1995 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains four (4) articles.

   H. Krallis presents the creative influence of the existential ontology of M. Heidegger in the theological thought of R. Bultmann. In this frame, the writer initially refers to the theological and philosophical course of the two men and then he presents the basic direction of Existential Theology that was a derivative and product of the acquiescence and conversation between the two men.

      A. Okorie makes some grammatical notes on ch. 2 and 3 of John's Revelation.

     The text of G. Rigopoulos is continued from his article in the previous issue of the BBS. In this he 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 making also a short reference to the most important contemporary hermeneutic views. Here he presents the sense of “election” in the O. T. and the significance of the Pharaoh of Egypt as God's “vessel of election” as well as the interpretation of the fathers. Next, follows the presentation of contemporary hermeneutic views by Greek Orthodox , Roman-Catholic and protestant theologians. An appendix follows, where the correspondence of the Pharaoh and ap. Paul is examined. The article is completed in the next issue.

    A. Pitta examines the relationship between the ethical admonitions of ap. Paul, known also as “entreaties”, and his “preaching”, turning his attention mainly to the ethical parts that usually conclude his Letters. In his analysis, he shows the complex relationship between the preaching and entreating parts of the pauline correspondence and concludes that any preaching and entreating variations of the Letters are defined by the different christological, spiritual and ecclesiastical accentuations of each Letter.

    The Chronicles of the issue come next. S. Agouridis presents the programme of the “International and  Inter-Scientific Symposium for the one hundred years since the writing of the book of the Revelation by Evangelist John” that took place in Athens from the 18^th until the 22^nd of September, the proceedings of the Convention of Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Biblical Theologians that took place in Athens from the 25^th until the 29^th of October and, finally, the proceedings of the Colloquium Ecumenicum Paulinum that took place in Rome from the 25^th until the 30^th of October 1995.

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 8^th  Synaxis of the Orthodox Biblical Theologians that took place in Nesebar, Bulgaria from the 10^th until the 15^th 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.