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Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ)

ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ

Abstract

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FOLLOWING THE PREFACE AND THE INTRODUCTION THE THESIS IS DEVELOPED IN THREE CHAPTERS AND ENDS WITH THE CONCLUSIONS. CHAPTER ONE DEALS WITH JUSTIN'S VIEWS CONCERNING THE AUTHENTICITY AND THE TEXT OF THE O(LD) T(ESTAMENT) AS THEY APPEAR INHIS WRITINGS (FIRST AND SECOND APOLOGIES AND DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO): JUSTIN ACCEPTS THE LXX TEXT IN WHICH HE FINDS DIVINE INSPIRATION BUT ONLY THESE BOOKS WERE ACCEPTED BY TRYPHO (A JEW). YET, JUSTIN IS FAMILIAR WITH OTHER O.T. TRANSLATIONS AS WELL (THAT OF THEODOTION AND THAT OF ACYLAS) AND WITH A COLLECTION OF PROPHECIES; HOWEVER, HE IGNORES THE HEBREW. IN THE SECOND CHAPTER THE "CHRISTOLOGICAL" ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION IS ATTEMPTED AS CHOOSING THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF THE O.T. WAS THE MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE 2ND CENTURY A.D. JUSTIN HAD WELL STUDIED THE O.T., HEBREW HERMENEUTICS AND APOCRYPHA, AND ALSO PHILO THE JEW; AND HE WAS THE FIRST TO REFER TO DIVINE INSPIRATION IN THE O.T. AND TO THE UNITY OF THE TWO TESTAMENTS, ARGUING AGAINST THE GNOSTIS. THE MAIN TENETS OF HIS INTERPRETATION ARE THE APPEARANCESOF THE LOGOS, THE "PRESEMIOSIS" IN THE O.T. ANDTHE MESSIONIC PROPHECIES . HE IDENTIFIES THE MESSIA WITH THE ETERNAL LOGOS OFGOD AND WITH JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF MARY, WHO SUFFERED AS A MAN BEFORE HE WAS GLORIFIED (RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION) AND WHO WILL COME BACK TO JUDGE MANKIND. IN THE THIRD CHAPTER THE PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING JUSTIN'S INTERPRETATION THE SCRIPTURE VIA THE SCRIPTURE; APOPHATIC THEOLOGY; PREAQUISITES OF SALVATION; THE "HEARTLESSNESS" OF JEWS) ARE EXAMINED:

Degree

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Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ)
Year dc:date
1991

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Τσαγγαλίδης, Ιωάννης

Subjects

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Rights

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gre

Identifiers

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Identifier
10.12681/eadd/1713
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oai:10442/1713

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citation

Τσαγγαλίδης, Ιωάννης. ΙΟΥΣΤΙΝΟΣ. Ο ΜΑΡΤΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΩΣ ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ. Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/1713