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In his 1583 ritual entitled Agendarius, which was innovative in many respects in comparison to its Hungarian predecessors, Bishop Miklós Telegdi of Pécs, the administrator of the diocese of Esztergom, added sample-like sermons to the rituals of the administration of the sacraments accompanying the great turning points of life (viz. baptism, confirmation, wedding etc.). He was presumably guided chiefly by pastoral considerations. For the second edition of 1596 (published after Telegdi’s death), the editors added a second funeral sermon, clearly intended for a more educated, urban audience – judging from the scholarly Latin quotations and the general tone. A comparison of the structure and content of the two speeches provides useful conclusions as to what the ecclesiastical authorities of the time considered advisable to preach at the time of death to mourners lacking basic schooling and what to the more learned audience.

This article argues that Isaiah's so-called ‘refrain poem’ (Kehrvergedicht) in Isa. 9.7–20 is a composite text, going back to two early prophecies with different concerns. Isaiah 9.7–17* focused originally on the arrogant refusal of the divine word, while Isa. 9.18–20* reflected on the chaotic social circumstances in Samaria in the eighth century. The refrains in vv. 9,11cd, 16ef and 20cd were added to these two already connected prophecies at a later stage. The theological summary in v. 12 is yet another addition, closely affiliated with 5.24–25. Unlike v. 12, the refrains do not have the repentance of Israel in view, nor its final destruction, but the fall of Assyria in Isa. 10.5–15, 24–27. The refrains support the theory that the Isaianic collection was formed by means of reusing, restructuring and reinterpreting earlier material. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309089216690385

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.

A Szanhedrin jogkörét illetően szinte minden kutató egyetért abban, hogy Jézus nyilvános működésének idején, amely Pilátus helytartói megbízatása alatt történt (Kr. u. 26–36), a Szanhedrin rendelkezett büntetőügyeket tárgyaló joggal, ahogyan azt követően is. Azonban nincs konszenzus a halálbüntetés kiszabásának jogát illetően. A Jn 18,31-ben a zsidók tagadják a halálbüntetéshez való jogukat, de a fent tárgyaltakból kiderült, hogy a zsidók autonóm módon rendelkezhettek a templom falain belül, mint ahogy számos példa bizonyítja azt is, hogy vallási kérdésekben szabadon dönthettek. Ez nem zárta ki a halálbüntetés kiszabását sem, és ezt több megkövezés általi halálra ítéltetés vagy ennek kísérlete igazolja. Igaz ugyan, hogy vallási kérdések esetében a zsidó hatóságok saját törvényeik szerint ítélkezhettek, és hajthatták végre az ítéletet, de nem kizárt az sem, hogy közönséges ügyekben is ítéletet hozhattak. Ezt sem cáfolni, sem igazolni nem tudjuk teljesen.