Volume 8, Issue 1, 2016
Articles published in the latest issue of Studia Biblica Slovaca
SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA: Commentary on the Song of Songs (Part 1). Prologue and Homilies 1–5 (Early Christian Library 6), Helena Panczová ed. Introductory Study, Translation, Notes and Indices, Bratislava: Dobrá kniha, 2015. 232 pp. ISBN 978-80-7141-927-3.
Martina KORYTIAKOVÁ
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 1-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEXXU8767
Abstract
The aim of this article wants to be an objective confrontation with two innovatory interpretations of Gen 13 and Abram’s figure. According to W. Vogels if anybody is to blame, it is Abram rather than Lot, because Abram divided the land. D. Ricket claims that Abram was only partially obedient to the Lord’s command because he did not fully leave his father’s household (cf. 12:1). The exegetical observations in this article show the authors’ interpretations not to be well-founded. Firstly, Gen 13 is not about the division of the land (חלק Piel), but about the separation of two men (פרד Niphal). Secondly, the sufficient proof for Abram’s fulfillment of the Lord’s order (לךָלך) is the formulation in 12:4a (ויֵּלעְ אַברָם). Thirdly, the sequence of 12:4a; 12:4b and 12:5 indicates that Lot’s presence by Abram is the result of Lot’s own initiative, not a consequence of his uncle’s decision. Fourthly, the lack of punishment, or the fact of blessing respectively, invalidates the possible patriarch’s disobedience. Finally, the location of 13:14-17 should be seen in the light of both the interconnection of the scenes within Gen 13 by means of the concept of seeing (ראה) and the fulfillment of the Lord’s words from 12:1d, not as a consequence of Abram’s act of disobedience.
The Motif of “the City” in the Song of Songs
Marek I. BARANIAK
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 32-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEYFE8503
Abstract
The motif of “the city” in the Song of Songs is marginal. However, it should be noted, that the phenomenon of urbanization characterized the historical transformation of the ancient society of Israel, and the term h’yr “the city” as a toponym for Jerusalem – gained a significant place in Hebrew epic and also is present in poetry. Taking into consideration the context and the way in which the image of the City emerges in the two poetic episodes of the Song of Songs (Song 3 and 5) it has to be noticed that: the way of treatment of the wandering woman by the guards of the city in the second poem recalls the Assyrian customs, but in the first fragment seems to illustrate much earlier period; the intentional use only of the unbound form of the noun “the City” without any complements, in place of the toponym for Jerusalem is characteristic for the First Temple period. These facts indicate the late preexilic period and the territory of the Kingdom of Judah as the editorial time and environment for at least part of the songs contained in the Song of Songs.
The True Way to Wisdom according to Sirach
Pavel PRIHATNÝ, OFMcap
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 47-64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEYNP6108
Abstract
Considering the period of its origin (and also the period of its translation in LXX version) the book of Ben Sira represents an apology where authentic way to wisdom is confronted with Jewish apocalypticism and Greek philosophy. Real wisdom is πᾶσα (full), going beyond man’s capabilities. This is the idea that Sira states right in the introductory verse and supports it using the lexeme πᾶς in the course of his book. Consequently, the authentic way leading towards such wisdom is marked by two dispositions of any person searching for wisdom, that is humility and prayer. These dispositions are for Sira so essential that he presents them in formal and conceptual inclusion in the first and final chapters of the book. Taking into consideration the ideas of other wise men of Israel, Sira also discerns that God has hidden wisdom in his creation and revealed in Tora, two places where wisdom can be found. In his approach to the full wisdom Sira avoids both exclusivism (intrinsic to apocalyptic literature) and overestimation of Greek philosophy, and presents to his compatriots secure and authentic way to the wisdom.
“The Lord Is Very Compassionate and Merciful” (Jas 5:11). On One Aspect of God in the Letter of James
Július PAVELČÍK
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 65-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEYQY1899
Abstract
The formula “the Lord is compassionate and merciful” in James 5:11 resembles some of the Old Testament set phrases about gracious and merciful God. Against the background of these Old Testament statements, this article attempts to explain the aforesaid God’s attributes, as described in the Epistle of James, in their narrow context.
Biblica 96 (1-2/2015)
Jaroslav MUDROŇ
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 88-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEYUO5171
Liber Annuus LXIV (2014)
Vavrinec Radoslav MITRO
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 91-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEYYY6856
VAŇUŠ, Marek: The Presence of God Among Men. The Tradition of the “Shekinah” in Neophytes and in Matthew (TG.T 214), Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2015. 429 pp. ISBN 978-88-7839-317-2.
Róbert JÁGER
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 99-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEZJI1558
BROŽ, Jaroslav: The Letter to the Hebrews (Czech Ecumenical Commentary on the New Testament), Praha: Česká biblická společnost, 2015. 260 pp. ISBN 978-80-87287-73-6.
Jozef JANČOVIČ
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 106-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsEZUT3081
SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA: Commentary on the Song of Songs (Part 1). Prologue and Homilies 1–5 (Early Christian Library 6), Helena Panczová ed. Introductory Study, Translation, Notes and Indices, Bratislava: Dobrá kniha, 2015. 232 pp. ISBN 978-80-7141-927-3.
Daniel SLIVKA
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 108-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsFBRV1965
Tenth Anniversary of a Permanent Biblical and Archeological Exposition in Croatia
Tomislav VUK
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 112-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsFDGA6899
Colloquium “Sermo Dei currat et clarificetur” on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Conciliar Constitution “Dei Verbum”. Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague, 25 November 2015
Jaroslav BROŽ
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 114-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsFDJG8819
Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture according to the Pontifical Biblical Commission
Josef HŘEBÍK
volume 8, issue 1, 2016, pages 117-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsFDKV7143