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An additional peculiarity of the Varadian Bible in comparison with the previous early editions of the Hungarian Bible translation of Gáspár Károli, is the annotation material worked out by Sámuel Köleséri, senior (1634–1683). The type area of the Varadian Bible shows that the body text printed in two columns is surrounded by several note-isles set with smaller characters: detailing headings included in textboxes at the head of the books and chapters, and marginal notes printed on the both vertical margins. According to their content and their characteristic, these notes may be ranked in three groups, such as: summaries (headings extended to résumé), glossaries (explanatory glossaries, concise exegetical remarks) and textuary indices (references to concordant, or parallel texts). Not all of these notes were compound by Köleséri, but the majority of the glosses have on them the mark of his theological, exegetical thinking. The present study is dealing not only with the glosses pronouncedly formulated by Köleséri, but also with a selection of all the enumerated sorts of notes.
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Rona Goffen (ed.): Masaccio’s Trinity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. 178 old., 30 illusztráció
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In the presented paper author presents an extensive and multilayered explanation of what Masoretic Text (MT) is. Having located MT in the core of great majority of the Bible editions, the author firstly presents the MT as the only text used by organized Judaism from the first century CE onwards. Since it is a medieval text with roots in antiquity, but capable enough of reflecting a thousand year old ancient tradition, a relationship between the forerunners of the medieval MT and the medieval text is further explained. A particular attention is given to the work of the scribes, especially with the reference to the proto-MT. The presentation continues with a respective but condensed presentation of the nature of MT and finally ends with a hermeneutical comparison of MT with the other texts, like Septuagint (LXX), Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) and Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS).
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This work underscores the differences within the vespers services of the asmatic rite and attempts to systematize its noted diversity. In conjunction with this effort, the author highlights the significance of these classifications for furthering research into this variability, which in alignment with the prevailing research, represents a marker of historical development in the earliest period of the asmatic rite, i.e. the daily cathedral form of the Byzantine liturgical cycle. All the various forms of vespers that are evidenced in the manuscripts Patmos 266, Holy Cross 40, and Dresden 140A belong to one of the following classifications: 1) daily vespers, 2) Sunday vespers, 3) vespers of great feasts (paramone), 4) vespers of Christmas, Theophany, and Pascha together with the liturgy of St. Basil the Great, and 5) vespers of the liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts that is served during Great Lent. The substantial differences that exist between the aforementioned groupings are the consequence of historical development and the accumulation of new elements within the ancient structure of the service. The work highlights the need for further research in the field of the asmatic rite, which comprises the foundation of the Byzantine liturgical form.
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Saint Sava was dedicated to ecclesial unity. In spite of lots of challenges, he successfully achieved duration of authentic ecclesiastical tradition. He made the balance between the One and Many in the synodal Church organization. Autocephalous Church of Zica and himself as the Archbishop was completely directed to accomplish the unity of the Eastern Church. Nowdays, it is the heritage of Saint Sava that emerges as the impediment to growing ideologies of autocephalism and conciliarism in contemporary Churh organization. Autocephalism is the specific type of religious ideology which annuls the principle of Church unity and catholicity. This kind of religious ideology is becoming more popular and spreading out among the members of peripheral ecclesial communities in which happen the renaissance of national and state identity. Autocephalism is often the source of the ecclesial and social crisеs, and the main section of separatist political agenda. Conciliarism is the other type of religious ideology which significantly affects the synodical awareness of the Church. It favors the synodical process itself without taking into account the genuine issues of the contemporary Church. Sometimes, those ideologies are opposite, but often they both together determining ecclesiastical life. The Great and pan-orthodox synod had been expected for centuries, which took place on Crete last year, had the unique opportunity and specific theological capacity to face and solve those aforementioned ecclesiastical and ideological issues. The grace of the Holy Spirit in our midst and time ahead us will tell whether the Holy Synod failed to respond to the current ecclesiastical challenges, or the answers would be expected at the end of a long synodal process which has just begun in Crete. Today, the legacy of Saint Sava and hih peculiar deeds are necessary for us to track genuine ecclesiastical tradition, contribute proper Church organization and achieve praiseworthy spiritual values.
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This paper discusses innovative and archaic tendencies in philology and culture of Pax Slavia Orthodoxa areal, with special emphasis on the collision which occurred in the crucial periods of cultural and spiritual history (the echoes of the reform of Patriarch Euthymius on the orthographic norm of Tarnovo-Resava School, the echoes of the revision of Patriarch Nikon on the reform of Church Slavonic norm, the influence of the constitution of the Old Believers on Church Slavonic and Russian literary language norm, the influence of philosophy and theology of onomathodoxy on the development of some areas of general linguistics with the Russians, the impact of democratization of culture on the affirmation of polylinguism of sacral languages in Pax Slavia Orthodoxa areal.
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