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Este o senzație teribilă pentru predicatorii practicanți să constate că metodele testate și ani de zile funcționale par să fie învechite, iar tipurile de predicări care păreau altădată eficiente sunt acum întâmpinate cu priviri plictisite și puterea lor de motivare de odinioară pare să fi dispărut. În astfel de momente, pastorii și specialiștii în omiletică încep să caute idei noi și inovatoare, pentru a putea pre-dica cu succes Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu. În bisericile protestante mainstream americane (bisericile metodiste, epis-copale, lutherane, prezbiteriene, etc.) această perioadă a fost numită „turnura narativă”. Părea că acesta ar fi fost răspunsul adecvat la multele probleme din predicarea americană care – s-a spus – a intrat în criză în anii '60 și '70.

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.

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 prédikálás jövőjét sejteti a furcsának tűnő cím is! Nem az én találmányom, ugyanis először David J. Lose amerikai lutheránus homiletikus kiváló tanulmányában találkoztam vele. A kifejezés a számítógépek világából származik, ahol már igencsak elterjedt a Web 2.0. fogalma. Tudomásunk szerint először Darcy DiNucci használta egy 1999-ben megjelent írásában, és arra értette, hogy a világháló fejlődésével a hangsúly egyre inkább a közösségi felhasználásra esik, ahol a felhasználók a valamikori képernyőbámulás helyett már önmaguk alakíthatják a világhálós tartalmakat, beleszólhatnak alakulásába, és interaktívan meg is oszthatják egymással véleményüket, elképzeléseiket. Tehát a mindennapi kommunikációnkat alapjaiban befolyásoló internet világában a statikus, készen kapott információfogyasztás helyét átvette az aktív tartalomteremtés, és ez igen hamar népszerűvé vált a felhasználók körében.