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 44th 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.