Volume 15, Issue 1, 2023
Articles published in the latest issue of Studia Biblica Slovaca
The Relation between Davidic Messiah and Mosaic Torah in the Final Redaction of the Five Books of the Psalter
Bernard GOSSE
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsAYND8024
Abstract
In a chiastic redaction the Psalter reaffirms the continuity of the Davidic Messiah (Books 1: Ps 1–41 and 5: Ps 107–150) after the rejection of the Messiah (Ps 89:39.52; the end of book 3: Ps 73–89). But the Torah is associated with this reaffirmation of the Messiah. This point appears in the three diptychs: Ps 1 and 2; Ps 18 and 19; Ps 119 and 120–134. In the middle of the verses of the Psalter, in Ps 78, appears the articulation between the Torah (Ps 78:1.5.10) and David (Ps 78:70-72). The intention of redaction of these psalms appears by the fact that they are the most extended psalms of the Psalter, Ps 119, 176 verses, Ps 78, 72 verses, Ps 89, 52 verses, Ps 18, 51 verses.
Some Reflections on Thematic Developments in the Hebrew Manuscript “A” of Ben Sira
Pavel PRIHATNÝ
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 13-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBALE6049
Abstract
There has already been in past decades serious research regarding possible structure(s) of the Book of Ben Sira. In this essay I focus my attention only on the Hebrew text of the medieval Manuscript “A”. I propose to perceive a possible structure of the book as formed in a manner of a skeleton composed by didactic poems, which contain prohibitive negative sentences. Prohibition, as such, has naturally strong rhetorical force, and therefore I believe that negative sentences in fourteen poems of the Manuscript “A” concentrate pedagogical emphases of each poem. Hence, I believe that these didactic poems, by the force of their compositional integrity, together with the strength of their prohibitive mood, form a basic structural skeleton interwoven and complemented with all remaining shorter or longer literary compositions.
Judith’s Two Blows in Jdt 13:8
Martina KORYTIAKOVÁ
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 37-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBAQN3910
Abstract
This paper interprets Judith’s two blows in Jdt 13:8 in the thematic framework of leadership. The study claims that Judith’s deed intratextually corresponds with the plan of the female protagonist approved by God. The two blows were dedicated to the two antagonists in the story and being in accord with the two projected wounds meant for the two categories of enemy (9:10.13). On the intertextual level, Judith’s two blows allude to Moses’ two strikes (Num 20:11). The author’s aim was to show Judith as the correction of the failed image of a leader. In contrast to Moses’ behaviour, Judith’s act does not disqualify her but prove her as a leader loyal to God.
Mattathias as Joshua in 1 Macc 2
Blažej ŠTRBA
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 51-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBBDY4236
Abstract
One of the two explicit references of Joshua in the Books of Maccabees is found in 1 Macc 2:55. Previous studies (e.g., R. Egger-Wenzel [2006], F.V. Reiterer [2007], T. Elßner [2008], J. Schnocks [2012] or Z. Farber [2016]) have mainly dealt with the issue of Joshua’s special title as judge in that verse. Elßner and Schnocks have examined the reception of Joshua’s actions and words in 1 Macc in more detail. The present study will focus on several textual references (syntagms and motifs) to the figure of Joshua, particularly in 1 Macc 1–2, that depict Mattathias with the characteristics of Joshua. In addition to being an example of intrabiblical interpretation, these references to a well-known figure from the famous ancestors, through identification with the heroic father Mattathias, also become the stock example for the heroes of the following parts of the book.
The “Gentile Mission” in Mark’s Gospel. A Review of Recent Research
Paolo MASCILONGO
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 70-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBBJM4296
Abstract
The article provides a presentation of the ‘Gentile mission’ in the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the non-Jews characters who appear in several episodes of the Gospel. For this purpose, the article employs narrative analysis, which is useful to describe the narrative function of each character (such as the Gerasene demoniac in Mark 5:1-20, the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7:24-31 and the deaf man in Mark 7:31-37), but also to discover the overall strategy of the evangelist. Specifically, the analysis aims to highlight the link between the presence of the gentile characters to whom Jesus favorably addresses, and the important scene described in Mark 15:39, when another gentile character, the centurion, confesses the divinity of Jesus with the words: “Truly this man was God’s Son!”
The Trial by Fire and Water. Elijah and Jesus in Lk 12:49-50
Štefan NOVOTNÝ
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 86-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBCNL4534
Abstract
Luke implicitly compares Jesus’ ministry to that of Elijah (Lk 4:25-27; 7:16; 9:8, 19, 62). In his gospel appears also references to a ministry of fire (Lk 9:54; 12:49), recalling Elijah’s ministry of judgment at Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18) and his calling fire down on the messengers of King Ahaziah (2 Kings 1). The present study aims to trace a typology of Elijah in Jesus´ logia about fire and baptism in Lk 12:49-50.
Liber Annuus LXXI (2021)
Vavrinec Radoslav MITRO
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 97-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBDGN1912
Cielontko, Dávid: The Vision of the Prophet Enoch. On the Function of the Parables of Enoch, Prague: Charles University – Karolinum, 2022. 232 pp. ISBN 978-80-246-5000-5.
Július PAVELČÍK
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 104-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBDHG2470
Scarano, Angelo: The Letters of John, Prague: Czech Biblical Society, 2020. 123 pp. ISBN 978-80-7545-102-6.
Júlia Daniela ISKROVÁ
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 111-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBDWM9689
Texts and Versions of the Old Testament. From Textual Criticism to Literary Criticism. 23–27 January 2023, Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome
Martina KORYTIAKOVÁ
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, pages 115-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBFQH1609
Nexus. Exegesis and Hermeneutics. Searching for Connections between History, Theology and Cultures/Contexts
Anna MÁTIKOVÁ
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, page 117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBFQH1609
Laureates of the Jozef Búda Prize 2021–2022
REDAKCIA
volume 15, issue 1, 2023, page 117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsBHNU9068