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This article argues that Isa 29,15-24 is composed of five coherent segments. The early Isaianic word, 29,15+21, was reinterpreted in a new way by an exilic author in 29,16-17+20. The presupposed blindness of Yhwh serving as a motivation for an ungodly life by those addressed in 29,15, is reconsidered as the ideology of desperate people who deem the blindness of Yhwh explains the present desolate condition of Jerusalem. The former injustice in Isaiah's society (29,21) is reinterpreted as the injustice of the foreign tyrant against the people of Yhwh. Isa 29,18+24 (the blindness of the people) and 29,19+23d-e (the oppressed Yhwh-fearing people) elaborate on the same theme in a larger context and presuppose a similar situation and author as implied by 29,16-17+21, probably to be identified with Deutero-Isaiah.

In this article we shortly introduce T. S. Eliot, noting some major themes he addresses, particularly in relation to religious faith and the search for meaning in life. In the second and third sections our article concentrates on the 1934 church pageant, called ‘The Rock’. This drama was only published once and is hard to find. However, the poetry Eliot included in the drama, called ‘Choruses from The Rock’, have been reprinted and included in various volumes so that these are readily available. But among those people who have read some or all of the ten Choruses from The Rock, very few have ever found a copy of the play in which these poems were situated.1 We present quotations from the ten choruses, with a few annotations at times concerning the context. In the fourth section we look at various aspects of Eliot’s Christology as found in The Rock.

Az ótestamentumi történetek közül Ábrahám áldozata az egyik legismertebb elbeszélés. Az elbeszélés tulajdonképpeni témája a hit próbája. A próbát jelentő gyermekáldozat kérdése nemcsak a kananeita eredetű judaista hagyományban található meg, hanem a görög mitológiában is. A Trója ellen hadra kelt görög sereg nem tud elindulni a szélcsend miatt. Előbb ki kell engesztelniük Artemisz istennőt Iphigeneiának, Agamemnon fővezér lányának feláldozásával. Az apának gyötrődései ellenére is meg kell hoznia ezt az áldozatot a cél érdekében, de a szörnyűség végül mégsem történik meg, mert Artemisz kicseréli a leányt egy szarvassal.