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Pavol Farkaš: La Donna Di Apocalisse 12: Storia Bilancio Nuove Prospettive. (=Tesi Gregoriana Serie Theologica 25). Roma: Pontificia Università Gregoriana 1997. S27 s. ISBN 978-88-7652-758-3.
Preview: La Donna di Apocalisse
The scientific monograph is a modified version of the dissertation of Pavol Farkaš defended at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1997. Commentaries and studies on the Apocalypse emphasize the text of Rev 12 as central and essential. Since 1959, when Pierre Prigent published his work: Apocalypse 12. Histoire de l'exegesis, to the present day, we have witnessed the multifaceted development of the exegesis of the Rev 12 passage. The proposed interpretations oscillate between a reference to Woman-Mary and Woman-Church with many intermediate stages.
The history of the exegesis of this chapter in the context of Eastern Christianity, especially in the post-patristic period, does not seem to have received adequate attention until the 1990s. We will therefore attempt to supplement the history of the interpretation of the Woman in Rev 12 with the perspective of the Eastern churches and to comprehensively summarize and evaluate the development and direction that exegesis has taken on this issue and to estimate its future possibilities for development.
[Translate to English:] Blažej Štrba: Take off your sandals from your feet! An exegetical study of Josh 5,13-15. (=Österreichische Biblische Studien 32). Frankfurt am Mein : Peter Lang Verlag, 2008. 404 s. ISBN 978-3-631-57599-4.
Preview: Take your sandals
This monograph is based on the revised and expanded dissertation of Blazej Štrba, defended in 2006 at the Faculty of Biblical Studies and Archaeology of the Pontifical Antonianum University in Jerusalem. The aim of this exegetical study is to propose an understanding of the short narrative of Josh 5:13-15 in its immediate (Josh 1-6) as well as broader (Gen-Jos) context. It reveals that Joshua's threefold appointment to his leadership role - by Eleazar, Moses, and Yahweh directly - is crucial to our understanding of the text.
The final divine installation gives Joshua the same authority as Moses. As a leader who enjoys the same assistance from Yahweh as Moses, Joshua is uniquely prophetic as Moses, under whose leadership the final realization of the promise - the entry into the Promised Land - will take place.
The redeeming era, which began in Ex 3, stretches back to Josh 3-4. The encounter of Yahweh with Joshua (5:13-15) thus inaugurates a new salvific era. Its narrator evokes the fulfillment of an ancient promise and its realization through deliberate references to the theophanies of the patriarchs, creating an unwavering hope that the gift of the land will be fulfilled.
Jozef Jančovič, Zuzana Zelinová: Obraz vesmíru z biblickej a filozofickej perspektívy. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2020. 151 s. ISBN 978-80-223-5038-9.
Preview: Obraz vesmíru
The monograph, written by a team of two authors, the first a theologian-bibliologist and the second a philosopher-expert in antiquity, reveals the paradigmatic shift from cosmogony to cosmology that took place in ancient philosophy.
In the first part of the monograph, Joseph Jančovič analyses, first of all, selected biblical texts and the four basic cosmogonic concepts in Scripture: (a) the creation of the world by means of God's word (Gen. 1:1-2:3), where the emphasis is on God's intention and its realisation; (b) the creation of the world by shaping (Gen. 2:4-25), with the emphasis on God's activity and his close relationship with creation; c) the creation of the world as a result of God's mythic struggle with the forces of chaos (Chaoskampf) in the poetic traditions, with emphasis on God's power and strength against nothingness and chaos (contra nihilum et congeriam); d) the creation by means of wisdom or the Son of God in later traditions (Prov 8:22-31; Jn 1:1-3; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3), with emphasis on aspects of wisdom in creation.
The second philosophically oriented section, which comes mainly from the pen of Zuzana Zelinova, explores perceptions of the concept of the cosmos in ancient Greece (from ornamentation to world order). In the conclusion, the authors compare the two ancient perspectives and their finality.
Róbert Horka: Venancius Fortunátus: Život svätého Martina. Z latinského originálu preložil a úvodnú štúdiu napísal Róbert Horka. Bratislava: RKCMBF UK 2019. 154 S. ISBN 978-80-88696-77-3.
Preview: Život svätého Martina
The life of St. Martin already received three elaborations in antiquity. First, a prose hagiography was published by Sulpicius Severus at the end of the 4th century, and then two epic treatments by Paulinus of Petricordia and Venantius Fortunatus were based on it. It is this last treatment of Martin's life that Róbert Horka offered as his habilitation thesis. Fortunatus is considered to be the last poet of antiquity and the first in the Middle Ages, and his poetic output is therefore quite significant.
In the first part of his thesis, the author offers a historical-literary monographic study of the author and his work, which is innovative treated as a novel. It is then accompanied by a translation of the entire poem into Slovak in the dactylic hexameter. The entire translation is supplemented by a rich annotated apparatus and indexes.