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Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 23, January-June 2005, year 33, pp. 145-278.

The January-June 2005 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains five (5) articles.

Father Th. Stylianopoulos presents the New Testament side of Peter's primacy, based on the exegetigal analysis that relies on testimonies of the context of the very same New Testament texts, according to the international critical biblical research. In the main body of the article, the primacy of Peter is examined, the way it appears in Matthew, especially in Mth. 16, 16-19, Paul, Luke, as well as in the rest New Testament texts.

P. Vassiliadis outlines the relationship between the most eschatologically oriented text of the New Testament tradition, that is of Q (ηΠηγήτωνΛογίων) and the most eschatological act of the Christian community that is the Eucharist. At the end of the article, the structure of Q is given in an appendix with details of its “eucharistic” part.

J. Fotopoulos analytically examines the importance of food, wine and the sexual relationships in the Greek-Roman customs of giving dinners and their consequences on the interpretation of 1 Kor. 8,1-11,1 and the reports of ap. Paul to the sacrifices to idols and prostitution.

H. Pappas, focusing on the work of  Theodoros Mopsouestias, Σχόλιοστον 44οΨαλμό (=Comment on the 44^th Psalm), approaches his exegetical presuppositions and methods in the biblical texts, as well as in his Christology. The writer of the article analyzes the three basic key-words “service”(ακολουθία), “person” (πρόσωπο), “hypothesis” (υπόθεση) that are important exegetical terms for the proper understanding of Theodoros' exegesis and offer a new perspective in his Christology within the frame of his hermeneutic methods and assumptions.

D. McDonald deals with the issue of Mary Magdalen's historicity, referring mainly to the novelistic role that the literary structure and style of Mark's gospel reserved for her, a role on which the rest of the gospels relied and reformed, according to the particular aim they pursued.

In the Chronicles of the issue it is published the interview that Cardinal Angelo Amato gave to the professor of AUTH P. Vasiliadis. The purpose and the content of the text “Epistle to the bishops of the Catholic Church for the co-operation of men and women in the Church and the world” (2004) is analyzed in it, with particular emphasis on his biblical reports and the indirect references to the Orthodox tradition.

Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 20, July-December 2001, year 30, p. 152.

The July-December 2001 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains four (4) articles.

Robert F. O' Toole, S. J. attempts to pinpoint with the greatest possible precision the sense of “power” in Luke's theological approach, that is, of the gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. So, he examines all the ways of dealing with this concept, the various forms of “power” (for the missionary activity, the performance of miracles, the appointment of successors, the taking of the necessary for the community decisions, the baptism and the breaking of the bread) and its significance and who practises it and in which way.

K. Papathanasiou, referring to the issue of the catholicity of the D gospel, focuses his attention on the concept of “light”, the way it appears in the H. S. and especially in the specific gospel. In this frame, he talks of a Christology in light, based on John 8, 12 and analyzes the anthropological cosequences that derive from it.

A. Soumeka presents the archeological findings of Kuntillet 'Ajrud (building, inscriptions, etc) that is located on a remote hill in the desert of Sina and dates back to the Iron Age, highlighting its importance for the study of the early Judean history and religion.

S. Agouridis deals with the issue of the diversity of variations of the faith to Jesus that appear in persons or groups except his disciples and his Judean opponents, focusing on John 2,23-3,36. In this frame, he examines the faith to Jesus' person that is caused by the miracles-“signs” that he performed and its quality, the erroneous faith of Nikodemos and, finally, the beliefs of the disciples of John the Baptist for the person and the work of Jesus, while making a special reference to the relationship between these two persons as well.

Next follows the review of Chr. Karakolis on the book of Otfried Hofius, Neutestamentliche Studien, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 132, Tuebingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2000.

Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 21-22, January 2002- December 2003, year 31-32, p. 432.

The January 2002 - December 2003 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies is a tribute to professor S. Agouridis and contains twenty-two (22) articles.

G. Patronos presents the life, studies, the scientific and auctorial work as well as the broader social activity of S. Agouridis.

D. Doikos attempts in three unities the investigation of the enigmatic writing of MT and its vague rendering, “τααποκείμενααυτώ” (=these that await him), of the O' of Gen. 49, 10ba.

D. Kaimakis analyzes the issue of the election in the O. T.. In this frame, he describes the meaning of the sense of the fact of Israel's election byYahweh, the historical side of the issue and, finally, the theology of election.

Chr. Karakolis reports how Jesus is described in the D gospel and is, in fact, identified with the revealed God of the O. T. and the sotiriological consequences of this identification.

P. Vassiliadis refers to the way that the tradition and the first-christian literature on Jesus was dislocated by the eschatological, empirical motif of Q to the historical one of the type of Mark's gospel.

S. Despotis examines narrations of the synoptic gospels, in which coins are involved, so as to examine the real, but also the theological role that these play in them.

I. Karavidopoulos presents and analyzes the revival of the interest of biblical researchers for the quest of the historical Jesus that prevails from the 80's and onwards and has prevailed as the “third quest”.

H. Oikonomou epigrammatically mentions the sociopolitical plannings of globalisation and then approaches the issue through the data of the Paulean theology.

D. Passakos approaches the issue of the distinction between holy and sacrilegious, clean and unclean, the way it is presented through the different on the issue understandings that are met in the whole of the N. T..

G. Rigopoulos approaches the great apostolic eulogy, 2 Kor. 13,13 hermeneutically, claiming that it should be interpreted only under the light of the orthodox trinitology.

S. Sakkos moves on to a concise presentation of the theological teaching of the Revelation, confirming its full concordance with the respective one of the other books of the N. T. and especially the texts of John.

M. Goutzioudis presents in sort arrangement an important number of web pages and electronic material with free and not access on the internet about the biblical research and science.

K. Papadimitriou studies the way that the sermon on Jesus' resurrection was delivered by the first preachers to the Judeans and the heathen, the arguments, as well as the dialectic terms they used.

I. Petrou presents the modern speculation on the issue of salvation and, consequently, of sin and the ways to overcome it, which is connected to the level of the cultural perceptions and scientific knowledge.

D. Tsamis examines the position of Virgin Mary on the issue of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, the way it is presented in the patristic and ecclesiological grammatology.

N. Zacharopoulos presents the cultural, social, political and ecclesiastical frame of the time when st. Neophyte of Cyprus the Temperate (12^th -13^th cent.) lived.

Father K. Papadopulos examines if the pilgrimage of Alexander the Great in Jerusalem really happened.

G. Ziakas briefly presents the most basic elements of the Islamic faith, the situation today in the Islamic society, as well as the foundamental principles for the communication between Islam and Christianism.

Th. Papathanasiou analyses the information he collected by means of an empirical research on the issue of the contracting of the traditional African marriage, its structure and social function and the missionary role.

S. Papalexandropoulos compares the significance of the “absolute reality” for the pre-Socratic philosophers and the thinking of the Japan teacher of Zen Buddhism, Dogen.

D. Kyrtatas, through a historiographic approach that starts from Herodotus, investigates the way in which the study of war and religion has been established and their in-between relationship.

Th. Lipovats examines the place of Christianism and secularism in modernity and the role they had, as well as the one they are called to play today and in the near future.

Bulletin of Biblical Studies, vol. 20, January-June 2001, year 30, p. 128.

The January-June 2001 issue of the Bulletin of Biblical Studies contains five (5) articles.

K. Papathanasiou refers to the meaning of the term “cosmos” in the D gospel that is also a guide-line idea of the specific gospel. In the article he analyzes the par excellence and very characteristic meaning of the term: the world as “cosmos”, that is as the humanity that insists on the infidelity that repels the love of God and prefers darkness to light, as the area of sin and evil. In this fame, he examines the content of “cosmos”, the essence, the sin and its people, the relationship of Jesus and his disciples with it and, finally, the hatred and its lord.

R. Miller attempts a philological analysis of Psalms 113 and 137, focusing his interest on the structure of the Psalms.

H. Atmatzidis attempts a simple approach to the issue of the miracle of the satiation of the five thousand according to the fundamentalist way of approach of the new-testament passage. Initially, he presents some data in relation to the term “fundamentalism” and the history of this theological trend. Next, he attempts the interpretation of the miracle, based on the three theological positions-principles of fundamentalism-faith to the letter to the divine inspiration of the H. S., Christocentricity of the narration and historical character of the miracle-, quoting where necessary hermeneutical approaches of the historico-critical method as well, relevant to the passage, and comparing them. Finally, he mentions the in-between relationship of these two trends.

M. Adeyemi investigates ap. Paul's opinion about the potential means of salvation from the supernatural powers of darkness, the way it is depicted in his epistles. In this frame, he presents the Pauline positions on the determining victory of Christ over the powers of evil, on the constant fight of the Christians against them and the spiritual weapons that are required by the Christians for the relentless fight against the spiritual powers of darkness.

S. Agouridis analyzes in detail the whole of ch. 11 of the D gospel that also contains the story of Lazarus' ressurection. The specific chapter is a hub in the D gospel as it functions as a prologue to the story of the Passion.

Next follows a book review of K.Belezou on the collective work that was edited by G. Bodendorfer and M. Millard, Bibel und Midrasch. Zur Bedeutung der rabbinischen Exegese fuer die Bibelwissenschaft, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, Bd. 22, Tuebingen 1998, Mohr Siebeck.