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A napjainkban történő népvándorlásra lehet-e bibliai analógiát találni? Mostanában többször mondtam, hogy kényszeralkalmazások fogságában vagyunk, s ez elsősorban nemcsak a most felvetett kérdésre vonatozik, hanem homiletikai ficamként a teológiai minden tudományágát kísérti. Tudom, hogy ezek az alkalmazások, az időszerűsítés nyomása alatt jóhiszeműek, de megtörténhet, hogy tudománytalanok, s ezzel megerőszakolják a Szentírást. Nézzük meg a szóba jöhető történeteket.

In the past decades, research has raised the idea of a theology of the Septuagint (LXX) on various occasions. Important works were recently published on this topic in the Handbuch zur Septuaginta and the Septuagint and Cognate Studies series. The general theological tendencies of the LXX are identified by scholars in eschatology, messianism, anti-anthropomorphism and angelology. These tend to all be regarded as further developments of the theology of the Hebrew Bible (HB). However, one can trace the evolution of these and other main topics of the LXX in the New Testament (NT) and in the later apostolic writings as well. Based on three concise case studies, I point out the evolution of theological ideas from the HB through the LXX up to the NT in this paper.

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it sets the historical context in which Aphrahat wrote his Demonstrations and deals with the interesting relationship between his writings, ‘against the Jews’ and the Sassanian persecution of Christians. It also treats his refutation of the Jewish charges. Secondly, it addresses his ‘unique’ view of christology which is not in line with the Nicene decision concerning one aspect yet at the same time it is congruent with it. The paper also tries to point out that his view on christology was ‘unique’ but not exceptional in the Early Church.