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PublicationFazakas Sándor2021Pages: 192--209

A vallás nem megoldás. A vallás a probléma maga! – hangzik korunk vallás-kritikájának tenorja, amely világunk, s benne életünk, szabadságunk és békességünk veszélyeztetettségét és fenyegetettségét a fundamentalista vallási meggyőződés számlájára írja. Valóban, egyrészt nem kevés azon megnyilvánulások száma, amelyekben félelem tükröződik a vallásokkal, különösen az iszlám fundamentalizmussal szemben, amely egy isteni vagy vallási tekintély nevében abszolút engedelmességet és alávetettséget követel, s ennek eléréséhez az erőszak alkalmazásától sem riad vissza. De már az újkori vallási fundamentalizmus előtt is közkedvelt narratíva volt, hogy a vallás és politika szimbiózisa, illetve a reformáció által kiváltott konfesszionális ellentétek és brutális vallásháborúk csak pusztulást és romokat hagytak maguk után az öreg kontinens társadalmaiban.

PublicationKató Szabolcs Ferencz2021Pages: 115--129

Isa 7:14 is one of the most enigmatic texts of the Old Testament in which the traditional Christian exegesis has found the roots of the dogma of the virgin birth. It remains a question though whether this text indeed focuses on the female figure rathern than the son to be born. Following a brief survey of the recent state of research, in this article I address the question of the possible historical background of the text. Recent semantical investigations of the term עַלְמָה, often translated as ‘virgin’, show that neither עַלְמָה nor its synonym בְּתוּלָה imply any information about the eventual sexual experience of the named person. Both terms denote a young, unmarried woman. Regarding the identity of this woman there are four main theories: 1. the woman and his son are late eschatological figures conveying messianic messages; 2. the woman is the daughter of Zion and Immanuel is the people of Jerusalem. 3.

PublicationBalogh Csaba2014644Pages: 519--538

In studies on the composition of prophetic literature, the larger textual layers reinterpreting earlier texts, the so-called Fortschreibungen, received much attention. It is well-known that beside these larger literary elaborations prophetic books also contain shorter explanatory interpolations, often called glosses, which intend to clarify a particular imagery of the prophecy (e.g., Isa 9:14). A systematic reading of these short annotations has been neglected, however, in studying the formation of prophetic books. The present article reconsiders the Isaiah-Memoir from this perspective. It identifies editorial interpolations in three distinct pericopes, Isa 8:2, 8:6-7a and 8:23b. It is argued here that the identification of such explanatory additions is the key to understanding notorious textual complexities. Moreover, it points out that these interpolations tend to expose recognisable patterns and common hermeneutical principles.