Volume 1, Issue 1, 2009
Articles published in the latest issue of Studia Biblica Slovaca
bārtu nabalkattu ana māt Aššur īpušma uḥaṭṭtâ… Eine Studie zum Vokabular und zur Sprache der Rebellion in ausgewählten neuassyrischen Quellen und in 2 Kön 15–21
Daniel SLIVKA
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 4-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIJOT3648
Abstract
The Sacred Scripture as a source of God’s revelation became increasingly known among God’s faithful people at the beginning of the last century. The present study is an introduction to the biblical hermeneutics and hermeneutical problems in general. In Slovakia it represents a good overview of the basic terminology and definitions of hermeneutics. It is also concerned with questions about the subject matter of biblical sense in accordance with all other documents of the Pontifical Biblical Commission on the interpretation of the Sacred Scripture. The focus of this article is to provide information about the fundamental concepts and structure of biblical hermeneutics. It refers to its beginnings in history, its changes and current situation. Everyone, who opens and reads the Bible, wishes to understand the biblical text. In search for a hermeneutical (biblical) sense, many questions arise in regards to the text, author, subject of the text and the receiver. Questions such as: “What is the meaning of the biblical text?“ and “How meaningful it is for the concrete life of a Christian?” represent the midpoint of the research in biblical hermeneutics as an interpretation and reinterpretation of a message hidden in the texts of the Old and New Testaments. Dr. Daniel Slivka Prešovská univerzita v Prešove,Gréckokatolícka teologická fakulta Ulica biskupa Gojdiča 2 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia Email: dany@unipo.sk
Judgement and Suffering of the Prophet Jeremiah and Their Relation to the Songs of the Ebed Yahweh
János KARAFFA
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 21-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIKTT4184
Abstract
The intention of this article was to present the connections between the themes of judgement and suffering in different layers of the Book of the prophet Jeremiah. We have acquired various evidences of a connection between the suffering and judgment, which marked the whole Jeremiah’s work. It was stated that Jeremiah’s suffering has through his Confessions become a part of his message. In the Confessions, we also observed features of the events of sending and waiting for a judgement. On the basis of several literary and thematic coincidences we were able to examine some common motives of the Confessions of Jeremiah and of the Ebed Yahweh songs. We attempted to indicate the moment of overcoming the limits of Jeremiah’s suffering in the Ebed Yahweh songs, in which the idea of the substitutionary suffering is already evident. ThDr. János Karaffa, PhD. StBiSl 1 (1/2009) Contents Blažej ŠTRBA Preface ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1-3 Treaties Daniel SLIVKA Biblical hermeneutics …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4-20 János KARAFFA Judgement and Suffering of the Prophet Jeremiah and Their Relation to the Songs of the Ebed Yahweh ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 21-31 Peter ŠOLTÉS The Process of Relecture in the Gospel of John …………………………………………………………….. 32-50 Notes Milan SOVA The Mighty Pharaoh’s Hand (Exod 3:19) ……………………………………………………………………… 51-54 Reflections Frédéric MANNS OFM Inexhaustible Richness of the Word of God ………………………………………………………………….. 55-72 Anton TYROL Spiritual Actualization of Paul’s Message ……………………………………………………………………… 73-82 Abstracts and Reviews ………………………………………………………………………………… 83-91 Communications and References …………………………………………………………………. 92-104 Obsah Blažej ŠTRBA Predslov ………………………………………………………………………………………1-3 Štúdie Daniel SLIVKA Biblická hermeneutika ………………………………………………………………..4-20 János KARAFFA Súd a utrpenie proroka Jeremiáša a ich vzťah k piesňam ebed yhwh .21-31 Peter ŠOLTÉS Proces „relektúry“ v Jánovom evanjeliu ………………………………………32-50 Poznámky Milan SOVA Mocná ruka faraóna (Ex 3,19) ……………………………………………………51-54 Reflexie Frédéric MANNS OFM Nevyčerpateľné bohatstvo Božieho slova. Úvaha o zmysle Biskupskej synody v roku 2008 …………………………………………………………………..55-72 Anton TYROL Spirituálna aktualizácia Pavlovho posolstva …………………………………73-82 Abstrakty a recenzie …………………………………………………………………..83-91 Oznamy …………………………………………………………………………………..92-104 Katolícke biblické dielo 2009 Číslo 1
The Process of Relecture in the Gospel of John
Peter ŠOLTÉS
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 32-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIMXU6889
Abstract
The sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, in which Jesus presents himself as the bread of life, is despite varying exegetical views an example of a homogeneous and compact composition (John 6:1-71). This chapter may be entitled as “the Gospel within the Gospel”, because through the metaphor of the bread of life is captured the entire Johannine testimony to a new form of Jesus’s presence by those who believe in him. The participation in the Eucharist is a new form of the participation in the gift of a new life offered by God himself. The Eucharistic speech in the sixth chapter is notably and almost obtrusively, embedded in the context of the celebration of Jewish feasts. Noticeable is also the exception made by Jesus to the cycle of the Jewish calendar, since he is not present in Jerusalem as usual to celebrate the Passover, but on the shore of the Tiberian Sea, where he speaks of a new form of his future presence under the Eucharistic form. In his speech he uses the well-known Biblical metaphor of bread as God’s nourishment for his chosen people. He invests this metaphor with a new content and meaning. The process of relecture, or réécriture can reveal to the reader the function, content and meaning of the sixth chapter in John’s Gospel – the Eucharistic speech – which has till today been the fundamental pillar of faith in the constant presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacramental communion at every Eucharistic celebration.
The Mighty Pharaoh's Hand (Exod 3:19)
Milan SOVA
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 51-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIMZL4775
Abstract
The author asserts that the Masoretic text of Exod 3:19 does not need an emendation as suggested by BHS. The expression hqzx dyb refers to the hand of Pharaoh, which is in strong contrast with the Lord’s saving action in v. 20.
Spiritual Actualization of Paul's Message
Anton TYROL
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 73-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsINQX5857
Abstract
This reflection on the actualization of Paul’s message is concerned with several areas. The first, factographic area deals with Paul’s biography. The second area reflects his missionary ways. The third incentive to the present reflection is based on the extraordinary event of Paul’s illumination on the way to Damascus. Paul’s own theology equally nourishes the spiritual actualization. The last impetus to this reflection is Paul’s freedom.
Inexhaustible Richness of the Word of God. Reflection on the Meaning of the Synod of Bishops in 2008
Frédéric MANNS
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 55-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsINQS9275
Abstract
The problematics of the biblical interpretation was one of the topics of the Synod of Bishops in 2008 about the Word of God. There are many interpretative methods and approaches to the Scripture, yet Historical Critical Method remains the privileged one. All of the potentialities of the Bible support a pluralist reading of the biblical text today. If we desire to know and to make sense of the New Testament and its hermeneutics, we have to be acquainted with the Old Testament. Moreover, the New Testament itself is a witness to the Jewish interpretative methods. Nevertheless, the Christian reading of the Scripture is Christological, because Jesus Christ is its interpretative key. Judaic interpretation has two levels of reading the Scripture: Peshat a Derash, to which correspond two basic early Christian interpretations. The first type is allegorical (Alexandria); the second type, represented by Antiochian school, is historical. Since the Sacred Scriptures originate in the Apostolic tradition, they cannot survive without it. In this tradition the only real meaning of the Scripture is that, which has its origin in the Holy Spirit. Frédéric Manns OFM Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Faculty of Biblical Sciences and Archaeology P.O.B. 19424
Liber Annuus LVII (2007)
Blažej ŠTRBA
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 83-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsLERK7020
Henry Ansgar Kelly, Satan. A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi + 360 s. ISBN 978-0-521-60402-4
Blažej ŠTRBA
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 89-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsINSE4948
Analytical Bibliography on the Book of Deuteronomy: AnaBiDeut
Miroslav VARŠO
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, page 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsINZQ9094
In Memory of Don Heriban…
Jozef JANČOVIČ
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 93-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIOLV5324
Conference on the Letter to the Romans
Róbert LAPKO
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 96-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIOTJ9237
II. Biblical Days at the Greek Catholic Theological Faculty in Prešov
Daniel SLIVKA
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 97-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIOZM4644
Theological Conference for the First Time at the University of Žilina
Tomáš GULÁN
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 99-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIRCH4155
bārtu nabalkattu ana māt Aššur īpušma uḥaṭṭtâ… Eine Studie zum Vokabular und zur Sprache der Rebellion in ausgewählten neuassyrischen Quellen und in 2 Kön 15–21
Peter JUHÁS
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 100-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsISEQ8190
Betrothal and Wedding among Orthodox Jews in Slovakia
Monika LAŠOVÁ
volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 102-104
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsISJF2317