Artykuł ukazuje znaczny rozwój myślenia teologicznego i biblijnego na przestrzeni od początku XX wieku aż do zakończenia obrad Soboru Watykańskiego II. Zaistniałe napięcia pomiędzy naukami przyrodniczymi a biblistyką, a następnie pomiędzy naukami historycznymi a kwestią prawdy historycznej zawartej w Biblii stały się powodem licznych sporów i trudności, z którymi teologowie katoliccy nie umieli sobie poradzić. Dodatkowo trudności stawały się jeszcze bardziej nabrzmiałe z powodu zbyt daleko idących wniosków wyciąganych przez egzegetów protestanckich, stwierdzających między innymi, że na podstawie Ewangelii nic więcej nie można powiedzieć o Jezusie historycznym jak tylko tyle, że istniał (R. Bultmann). Bardzo systematyczna i wytrwała praca Ojców Soboru doprowadziła do sformułowania Konstytucji Dogmatycznej o Objawieniu Bożym Dei Verbum. Dokument ten przede wszystkim ukazał, na czym polega Boże Objawienie, a także otworzył szeroko drzwi dla wszelkich naukowych badań prowadzonych przez biblistów i teologów katolickich.
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The article presents the significant development of theological and biblical thinking since the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the Second Vatican Council. The tension between natural sciences and Biblical Studies, and thenceforth between historical studies and the matter of historical truth in the Bible, became the cause of numerous disputes, and controversies that Catholic theologians could not manage. Additional difficulties were caused by dubious conclusions of the Protestant exegetes, who stated that based on the Gospels there is only one reliable fact about the historical Jesus – the fact that he had existed (R. Bultmann). The very systematic and persistent work of the Council Fathers led to the formulation of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum. This document described the nature of Divine Revelation and acknowledged all scientific research of the Catholic theologians and biblical scholars.
The New Testament articles published in the Polish theological journal “Collectanea Theologica” initially (1920-1965) had significant apologetic characteristics. After the Second Vatican Council (1966-1989), they became more pastorally oriented. Especially in the years 1990-2006, many articles were devoted to the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. Since 2007, the problem of the reception of the Old Testament in the New Testament has become much more prominent. In general, the articles related to the New Testament bear witness to the strong ties of Polish biblical scholarship with the Vatican documents concerning Scripture as well as the exegetical methods elaborated in the pontifical universities and institutes in Rome. On the other hand, the heritage of German biblical scholarship is treated in the New Testament articles published in “Collectanea Theologica” with greater mistrust and criticism.
The article deals with the problems of translation and interpretation of certain places in the biblical text. As a pretext for the considerations undertaken, the author used Tadeusz Szymański’s sketch published in the “Język Polski” magazine in the final years of the last century, in which the Cracovian Slavist proves that the translation of the pericope “about the camel and the eye of a needle”, found in all the synoptic gospels (Mt 19:24; Mk 10:25; Lk 18:25), is erroneous in the Polish translation‑biblical tradition. According to the author of the study, Tadeusz Szymanski’s sketch reveals both some misunderstandings and gives rise to the need for more integrated, philological and biblical research in the field of translation and biblical exegesis.
In recent years the impact of Assyriology on Biblical studies and theknowledge of the history of ancient Israel has become more and moreevident. Thanks to Assyriology the reconstructions of the history of Israelin the period of the First Temple are much fuller and more comprehensivethan before. The same is true in regard to the very roots and nature of manybooks included in the Hebrew Bible. The up-to-date results of the cooperationof Biblical scholars and Assyriologists lead us to the conclusion thatin the 7th century B.C. there existed a strong and fruitful Israelite diasporain Assyria. Because information on its existence, influence and outcomeare consequently scanty in the Bible (damnatio memoriae), so Assyriologyhelps to gain a new knowledge about it and to assess its impact on the religionof ancient Israel.
Tegoroczne, XVI walne zebranie i 55. sympozjum Biblistów Polskich odbyło się w Legnicy. Uczestnicy uczestniczy w trzydniowym spotkaniu. Pierwszym etapem walnego zebrania omówiono bieżące sprawy Stowarzyszenia Biblistów Polskich. Dwa kolejne dni wypełniło sympozjum. Prelegenci omówili aktualne kierunki badań w biblistyce polskiej.
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This year’s fourteenth General Meeting of Polish Biblists and the 55th Polish Biblical Symposium took place in Legnica. Participants took part in a three-day meeting. The first stage was the general meeting where the current issues of the Polish Biblical Association were discussed. The next two days were taken by the symposium. The speakers discussed the current directions of research in Polish biblical studies.
Artykuł traktuje o zakorzenieniu konstytucji o Bożym Objawieniu Soboru Watykańskiego II we współczesnym naukowym i eklezjologicznym podejściu do Pisma Świętego. Biblia bowiem wyrasta z wiary Kościoła i tę wiarę, wraz z Tradycją, buduje. Całość opracowana jest w trzech punktach. Najpierw uwaga skupia się na Bogu, który objawia człowiekowi samego siebie i swą wolę zbawienia ludzkości. Następnie jest mowa o sposobach komunikowania się Boga z człowiekiem przy pomocy autorów ludzkich oraz długi proces tworzenia dzieł natchnionych kanonu ksiąg świętych. Jest wreszcie podkreślona konieczność odpowiedzi człowieka na Boże Słowo, dzięki czemu istota ludzka wchodzi w dialog zbawczy ze swoim Ojcem, przez Jego Syna w Duchu Świętym. Wspólnota wiary Kościoła stanowi naturalne środowisko badań, lektury i życia Słowem Bożym, do czego zachęca w swoim zakończeniu Konstytucja Dei Verbum (nr 25).
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The article discusses the issue of how strongly contemporary ecclesiological and scholarly approach to the Sacred Scripture is rooted in the Second Vatican Council Constitution Dei Verbum. The Bible originates from the faith of the Church, and, together with Tradition, helps to build this faith. The text consists of three sections. The first one focuses on God, who reveals Himself and His plan of salvation to man. Then, the ways in which God communicates with man through human authors and the long process of writing the inspired sacred books are mentioned. The last part emphasises how important it is for man to respond to the Word of God, which will enable the salvific dialogue of man with his Father, through His Son in the Holy Spirit. The community of Church faith is a natural environment of research, devotional reading and encounters with the Word of God, which are the elements of Christian life that the Constitution Dei Verbum (no. 25) encourages to implement.
Te Holy Scriptures Lectures at the St. John Paul II Major Seminary of the Dio-cese of Siedlce from 1918 to 2018 Tis article was intended to show how the St. John Paul II Major Seminary of the Diocese of Siedlce over the last hundred years fulflled the basic requirement of formation for the priesthood, which is the intellectual introduction of alumni into the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. In the 20th century, the Church in Poland experienced many dif-fculties connected above all with the First and Second World Wars and the communist regime. Nevertheless, the seminary of the Diocese of Siedlce, thanks to the continuous reading of the current Magisterium’s guidelines and the involvement of more and more educated lecturers, constituted an environment for preparing alumni for the demanding and responsible ministry of the Word.
The articles devoted to the Old Testament scholarship and published in the oldest and most important Polish theological journal “Collectanea Theologica” are ordered according to three main periods, namely: Years 1920-1939; Years 1949-1989 and Years 1990-2020. In the framework of these periods they and presented in seven phases: 1. Years 1920-1930; 2. Years 1931-1939; 3. Years 1949-1965; 4. Years 1966-1978; 5. Years 1979-1989; 6. Years 1990-2003 and 7. Years 2004-2020. All titles of publications and their authors are mentioned, giving an idea of the history, results and scientific level of Polish biblical scholarship on the first part of the Christian Bible. It may be observed that huge progress, both in quantity and quality, was done in the last half century.
The article aims to showcase Polish Roman Catholic Bishop Kazimierz Romaniuk as an academic, biblical scholar, one of the translators of the Millennium Bible and the sole translator of the Warsaw–Praga Bible. He authored numerous monographs, academic studies and other writings devoted to biblical topics and lectured at the Catholic University of Lublin, the Academy of Catholic Theology, the Pontifical Faculty of Theology and the Metropolitan Higher Theological Seminary in Warsaw, of which he became the rector. The study focuses on the course of the scholar’s education and career as well as his academic achievements and significance in the 20th-century Catholic biblical studies in Poland and the international biblical criticism.
Tekst stanowi relację z Konferencji Slawistycznej poświęconej pamięci Profesora Leszka Moszyńskiego "Badania nad kulturą Słowian. Między synchronią a diachronią", która odbyła się w 18 listopada 2016 roku Katedrze Slawistyki Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.
The main source used in the article is a Latin manuscript from the former library of St Peter and Paul’s Church in Legnica, currently kept at the Wrocław University Library. The components of the manuscript were created in the 1370s and 1390s in Bohemia. In the course of processing the document, various interesting bohemica were discovered, ie Czech translations of Psalms 129 and 132, identified as a part of the Clementine Psalter from around the mid-14th century, in ‘Mammotrectus’ by John Marchesinus, 13 Czech month names on the margins of ‘De regimine mensium’ as well as botanical names, medical terms and advice on lactation inducers among other medical prescriptions. There is also a contentual bohemicum, ie initial fragments of ‘Passio sanctae Ludmillae’, the Latin account of the martyrdom of the Bohemian patroness saint, from a breviary written at the turn of the 12th and the 13th centuries. The article includes comments on the aforementioned texts as well as their editions.
The review is a look at the book Z romantycznych rodowodów biblijnych. Apostoł Paweł w twórczości Cypriana Norwida (From the Romantic Biblical Origins. St Paul the Apostle in Cyprian Norwid's Work) as an inter-disciplinary publication showing the author's great competence in all the problems he tackles, with theology and study of literature at the head. In the background the question appears about the method accepted by Piotr Marchewka, which may seem complicated to an average reader, but his style of shaping the text (the “case” one) is clear and harmonious enough to make the seemingly formal text a nice reading. Numerous references, digressions and penetrating analyses of Dwa męczeństwa (Two martyrdoms) and Salem consistently lead to the finale that is a convincing suggestion of an explanation of Norwid's fascination with the figure of St Paul.
The review is a look at the book “Z romantycznych rodowodów biblijnych. Apostoł Paweł w twórczości Cypriana Norwida” (From the Romantic Biblical Origins. St Paul the Apostle in Cyprian Norwid’s Work) as an inter-disciplinary publication showing the author’s great competence in all the problems he tackles, with theology and study of literature at the head. In the background the question appears about the method accepted by Piotr Marchewka, which may seem complicated to an average reader, but his style of shaping the text (the “case” one) is clear and harmonious enough to make the seemingly formal text a nice reading. Numerous references, digressions and penetrating analyses of “Dwa męczeństwa” (Two martyrdoms) and “Salem” consistently lead to the finale that is a convincing suggestion of an explanation of Norwid’s fascination with the figure of St Paul.
Between the year 1925 and the outbreak of World War II, the Diocese of Częstochowa had 473 priests. Apart from their pastoral duties, some priests engaged in writing. They were educated for that purpose, and some of them had had previous authorship experiences in other Dioceses. The most prolific were priests coming from the Diocese of Włocławek. Essays and papers by the Częstochowa Diocese priests were published by university and Diocese publishing houses. Clerical publishing was strongly supported by the Diocese leaders, such as Bishop Teodor Kubina, who emphasized the importance of these activities. The publications in question concerned a variety of issues and domains. Most works concerned theology. Some of these were strictly scientific papers, others were of more popular character, yet others were targeted at a wider public. The publications were in Polish and Latin. Apart from theology, some priests wrote texts in the field of humanities: literature, documentaries and journalism. Altogether, in the years 1925-1939, at least 57 priests were active writers, which equalled 12% of the total of the clergy in the Diocese.
Between the year 1925 and the outbreak of World War II, the Diocese of Częstochowa had 473 priests. Apart from their pastoral duties, some priests engaged in writing. They were educated for that purpose, and some of them had had previous authorship experiences in other Dioceses. The most prolific were priests coming from the Diocese of Włocławek. Essays and papers by the Częstochowa Diocese priests were published by university and Diocese publishing houses. Clerical publishing was strongly supported by the Diocese leaders, such as Bishop Teodor Kubina, who emphasized the importance of these activities. The publications in question concerned a variety of issues and domains. Most works concerned theology. Some of these were strictly scientific papers, others were of more popular character, yet others were targeted at a wider public. The publications were in Polish and Latin. Apart from theology, some priests wrote texts in the field of humanities: literature, documentaries and journalism. Altogether, in the years 1925-1939, at least 57 priests were active writers, which equalled 12% of the total of the clergy in the Diocese.
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