« A single gray flake, like the last host of christendom » : The Road ou l’apocalypse selon St McCarthy by Yves Davo

“…This article focuses on Cormac McCarthy’s religious viewpoint in The Road (2006) and highlights the biblical metaphors and images that bring about a new vision of the apocalypse. …”
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Mateuszowa Ewangelia cudów (Mt 8–9)– przekład alternatywny by Krzysztof Bardski

“…After discussing other Polish translations of the text (in the footnotes), we suggest alternative options that would intensify the expressivity of the narrative and stress the semantic aspects that have been neglected in former Polish translations but seem to be important in the context of the postmodern reception of the biblical text. …”
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Modern Theological Debates of Hell in the USA by Sydney Sadowski

“…The differing philosophical, theological and biblical are presented for each general category. The article strives to give a general overview of the various theologies and to show that such theological investigation is of urgent importance for Christians today. …”
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Os cem olhos do pavão by Marcelo Amato Cardoso

“…This article tries to show how the symbolism of the peacock was transmitted and adapted from Ancient India to Medieval Europe, where the bird figured in the Christian creativity as an emblem of the immortality of Christ and the preachers of the Church, along with hagiographical narratives and biblical images.…”
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Ontological Sovereignty: Black Justifications for Violent Resistance to Slavery, 1500-1900 by Dalitso Ruwe

“…This essay advances the claim that Africana thinkers between the 16th and 19th centuries developed critiques of slavery with the following themes: (a) slavery as a function of ignorance of biblical or secular knowledge; (b) slavery as a function of European carnal impulses; (c) slavery as a crime, for which the God-ordained punishment was death; (d) justification of self-defense to restore African liberty; and (e) economic restitution for stolen labor. …”
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IMPLICATION OF COMMUNALISM IN CHILD-TRAINING IN ANCIENT ISRAEL AND TRADITIONAL YORUBA SETTING FOR MORAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by FABAREBO SAMUEL IDOWU, IYANDA ABEL OLATOYE

“…Filling this gap, this paper examines the implication of communalism in Child-Training in ancient Israel and traditional Yoruba setting for moral education in contemporary Nigeria. Biblical texts and 30 purposively selected Yoruba proverbs were the primary data. …”
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The Four Problems which Old Testament Married Couples Grapple with by Marcin Majewski

“…The proposal will be that problems afflicting couples of biblical time are not so different from the ones besetting contemporary couples. …”
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Tendencies in the interpretation of Galatians 3:28 since 1990 by D. Francois Tolmie

“…The overview is structured in terms of the following categories: Translation, grammar, origin, Paul’s views expressed in this verse, new interpretative approaches, the verse viewed in terms of other Pauline/Biblical texts/perspectives from the world of the New Testament, the Wirkungsgeschichte of the verse, and the implications of the verse for church and society. …”
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Similibus simile cognoscitur. O pensamento analógico medieval by Hilário Franco Júnior

“…This is exemplified in the present article by the frequent use that the Middle Age made of analogies in mathematics, cartography, medicine, theology, biblical exegesis, liturgy, etymology, and literature, among other fields of human activity.…”
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„Pieśń duchowa” św. Jana od Krzyża – przekład,aluzje biblijne i symbolika by Krzysztof Bardski

“…In the introduction, we presented earlier Polish translations of the work, and in footnotes, we emphasized the issues related to symbolism and biblical allusions. …”
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Les symboles bibliques dans la publicité : développement, contextes, conflits by Jérôme Cottin

“…For about three decades, advertisement has been using, implicitly or explicitly, biblical and Christian quotes. It diverts them or turn them into metaphors in playful, evocative, or humoristic ways. …”
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Man's image in creation narratives by Hannes Olivier

“…And that is also the core of biblical anthropology, namely that man is created by God in or according to God's likeness or image. …”
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An assessment of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator from a practical theological perspective by A. R. Tucker

“… The aim of this article is to assess the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) from a Reformed perspective of a Trinitarian biblical hermeneutic of hope. It examines and assesses the compatibility of its assumptions with a theory of personhood derived from a Reformed perspective. …”
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Avatars cervantins d’un stéréotype : le « récit de tempête » et le brouillage des frontières textuelles dans Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda by Michel Moner

“…The presence of storm scenes, abundantly documented in their forerunners in homeric and biblical literature, is an occasion of defining their status in the context of romantic texts in which they appear under a mixed narrative/descriptive form. …”
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The sixth seal in Revelation 6:12-17 by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…In an introduction the nature and role of a close  reading in Biblical Studies is briefly outlined. A second part analyses the form of the sixth seal and indicates what and how literary techniques were used to compose the text. …”
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Eunuchs in the Bible by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…This study therefore examines the 38 original biblical references to saris and the two references to eunouchos in order to determine their meaning in context. …”
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“Who is Afraid of Cesare Brandi?” Personal reflections on the Teoria del restauro by Salvador Muñoz Viñas

“…One explanation for this status might be because the work is seen as a “fetish” or an “almost-biblical” text, and as such, its ability to inspire has become more important than its intellectual soundness.…”
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El viaje circular : Causas da Decadência dos Povos Peninsulares de Antero de Quental como apocalipsis secular by Ricardo Ledesma Alonso

“…I argue that the Anterian scheme of peninsular history, structured in stages of « prosperity » (Late Antiquity and Middle Ages), « decadence » (16th-19th centuries) and « regeneration » (future), can be understood as a romantic reinterpretation of the design, concepts and images of biblical history and prophecy. This study aims to contribute to the discussions about the theological presuppositions of modern historical consciousness.…”
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The Bible and its translations: colonial and postcolonial encounters with the indigenous by Jacobus A. Naudé

“…By means of a process of indigenisation of the translated versions of the Bible, these translations have come to prescribe and dominate biblical dialogue, the nature of the colonial encounter between the source text and translations, and the target audiences, by commenting on the cultural mechanisms of ownership, resistance and indigenisation as vacillating media of oppression and liberation. …”
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Interioryzacja misterium paschalnego Chrystusa w celebracji Eucharystii by Stanisław T. Zarzycki

“… Starting from the difficulties in the reception of the Council’s teaching on the liturgy and its implementation, this article points to the need to discover the paschal mystery of Christ in the Eucharist. Because of the biblical and patristic-liturgical renewal and the re-emphasis on “mystery” in the twentieth century, the article introduces the concept of mystery in pagan cults and in the Church of the first centuries. …”
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