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Rezumând atitudinea terapeuților față de bunăstare, putem constata că această comunitate a ridicat la un nivel atât de înalt valorile spirituale, încât a ignorat absolut tot ce aparține vieții zilnice obișnuite. Ei s-au străduit la înmulțirea bo-găției înțelepciunii (par. 16–17, 20) și a valorilor spirituale. În rândul acestei co-munități meditațiile asupra Sfintelor Scripturi, a cărților sfinte proprii, precum și asupra înțelepciunii dumnezeiești (par. 1, 28–30, 67) sunt absolut primordiale, din care rezultă retragerea din lume și disprețuirea totală a bogăției pământești.

In this dissertation I would like to present an extract from Philipp Melanchthon's work Catechesis puerilis. I translated part of the work from Latin into Hungarian. The work, Catechesis puerilis, is quite distinct from Martin Luther's well-known Small Catechism. However, their objective is the same: to teach the knowledge of the Christian faith. Philipp Melanchthon begins the catechesis with a grammar lesson for school-age children. I have divided my dissertation into five major units. The first part is about the life of Philipp Melanchthon. I will briefly talk about his childhood, his school years, and then about his personality, his family and his family life. I am interested in what Melanchthon was like as a child, who were the people who helped him, who took him in, so to speak. In the second part I talk about Melanchthon as a teacher. I was curious to know what Melanchthon was like as a teacher.

Walter Jens a kortárs német irodalom és kulturális élet kiemelkedő alakja: a retorika és klasszika-filológia egykori professzora, író, irodalomtörténész, kritikus, fordító, a teológia művelője volt. 1923 márciusában született Hamburgban, tehetős polgári családban. Az elemi iskola elvégzése után a neves Luther-tanítvány, Johannes Bugenhagen alapította gimnáziumban érettségizett 1941-ben. Súlyos asztmája miatt felmentették a háborús szolgálat alól. Ezt követően germanisztikát és klasszika-filológiát hallgatott Hamburgban és Freiburgban. 1944-ben a freiburgi egyetemen doktorált Szophoklész verseléséből, habili-tációs dolgozatának címe pedig Tacitus és a szabadság (1949, Tübingen). 1950- ben a tübingeni Eberhard-Karls Egyetem klasszika-filológia tanszékének vezetője lett, és ugyancsak ebben az évben vált tagjává a hírneves Gruppe47 irodalmi csoportosulásnak. 1963-tól a számára létesített általános retorika és klaszszika filológia tanszék vezetője.

Ebben a jellemzésben is felfedezhetjük, hogy a törvény szerinti élet, a földi javak megvetése és az elkülönülés, valamint az Istennek szolgáló életvitel együvé tartoznak. A papi, elit jellegű terapeuta létmód pedig az Istenhez menekülés sajátos formája.

Psalm-singing in the Community of Therapeutae Based on De vita contemplativa by Philo of Alexandria. The Therapeutae’s ascetic devotion is characterized not only by searching the scriptures, meditation and prayer but also by singing of hymns and psalms. Hymns were composed by the principals of the community, they were those who taught the community members to sing them and they continually enriched the hymnal with new ones. The Essenes’ and Therapeutae’s psalm-singing indicates first of all the common Old Testament origin. However these religious communities had different self-identity from that of the normative Jews and this identity required for a special psalm-poetry to be accomplished. The Therapeutae’s psalms remind us of the church psalm-tradition characterized, just like the Essene hymns, by responsive singing and refrains.