This article continues the publication of isosyllabic reconstructions in Hebrew of the texts of the New Testament (the journal «Bible and Christian Antiquity», № 4 (8), № 1 (9)) and offers a reconstruction of the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16, 19–31).

The publication focuses on the sermon «Against Heretics, on the Divine Trinity» (CPG 5691) of Nestorius, Archbishop of Constantinople, which survived under the name of Basil, Archbishop of Seleucia, and was recently identified and published in an ancient Greek by W. Kinzig. The preface gives a general description of the corpus of Greek sermons by Nestorius, examines the textology of the sermon and of its translation into the Slavic language, analyzes the theological content of the sermon and its critical reception by St. Cyril of Alexandria. According to the author’s conclusion, the sermon has a rhetorical rather than theological value; at the same time, it serves as an important source for understanding the inner connection between the triadological and christological beliefs of Nestorius. Full Russian translation of the sermon is offered; in the comments to the translation, a number of corrections and clarifications of textual solutions and interpretations of Kinzig are presented. Based on the manuscripts Hilandar. slav. 404, Hilandar. slav. 389 and RSB. F. 98. № 462 the ancient Slavic translation of the sermon, made at the end of the XIV century in the circle of Euthymius of Tarnovo, Patriarch of Bulgaria, is published.

This article is dedicated to an encomium on St. Luke the evangelist, whose text has been preserved in the manuscript Laud. gr. 81 (and two copies of it), which says that its author is St. Andrew of Crete, and in Ambrosianus A 63 inf., according to which the author is Photios, deacon and skeuophylax. Some arguments in favor of St Andrew’s authorship are considered and a translation into Russian is given.

This article analyzes one expression of St. Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378–444). In his Commentary on John 6, 53, the archbishop elucidates the working of the Eucharist by comparing it with the raising of Jairus’s daughter through Christ’s command and the stretching of his hand. In this context St. Cyril calls the life-giving ἐνέργεια one and cognate. In the seventh century, this passage was adduced by the Monoenergists to argue that in Christ there was only one ἐνέργεια. In this article, at first it is studied what meaning was given to the phrase “one and cognate ἐνέργεια” by various Monoenergist protagonists, by Maximus the Confessor (579/80–662), and also by a few modern theologians. After that the author investigates what St. Cyril himself will have had in mind when he wrote this passage. He comes to the conclusion that the one ἐνέργεια is the divine ἐνέργεια, which is at work both through the command and through the touch. It is not a synthesis of the divine and human ἐνέργειαι. The human ἐνέργεια is not mentioned in this context, but from other passages it is made clear that according to St. Cyril, Christ also had a human ἐνέργεια.

Analysis of the symbolic images of Leontius (the Church and her sacraments, the Lamb of God, the Bread of Heaven, the royal power of Christ) demonstrates, on the one hand, Leontius’ commitment to Eucharistic realism and integral ecclesiology, uniting the sacramental and social functions of the Church, on the other hand, reveals some blurring of the boundaries between the symbol and the reality, and the fascination with the literary completeness of the image, which sometimes leads the preacher to deviate from the theological positions defended by him. The restraint of Leontius in the development of the idea of the royal power of Christ by His human nature is well explained by his pre-Chalcedonian Christology, as well as by the fact that the preacher was under a fresh impression of the heresies of the late 4th century (Marcellus of Anсyra) and their condemnation at the II Ecumenical Council. The latter makes it possible to more confidently date the Corpus Leontianum of the late 4th — early 5th centuries.

The article analyses the work of the outstanding bible writer and theologian W. Brueggemann. Bruggeman is known not only as an authoritative researcher and commentator of many Old Testament texts but also as a representative of the tradition of «biblical theology», a trend of humanitarian thought that is becoming less popular in Western scientific circles. The theological endeavour of the American theologian was significantly influenced by the latest trends in modern Western philosophy and literature studies (poststructuralism, deconstructivism, rhetorical criticism, semiotics). The article explores the extent to which Bruggeman has managed to combine his commitment to postmodern hermeneutics with his loyalty to the tradition of biblical theology.

The Series «Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium» was founded in 1903 by Abbot Jean-Baptiste Chabot. Its purpose is to publish Christian texts in various ancient oriental languages (Ethiopic, Arabic, Coptic, Georgian and Syriaс). In this review, the author invites the reader to get acquainted with the first 28 volumes of the Coptic section of this series, which include both the publication of the texts themselves in various dialects, and their translations into Latin, French, and English.

At the turn of the century the Septuagint research seems to be turned to picking up the crumbs. The progress in source studies, grammatics, lexicography and lexicology, textology, application of new translation theories, paradoxically didn’t lead to the expansion of the formulation of research tasks, although this expansion was meant by theological institutions that once took steps to deepen the study in these fields. Instead, there has been prevailed a meticulous insight into the details, that, even being soluted completely convincing, in relation to the problems of a more general plan (although also in themselves particular), as a rule, has but a hypothetical significance. Such a situation allows us to characterize the Septuagint studies in this period, at least in the main part, as an «ivory tower», despite the continued training of high-class specialists and the increase in knowledge not only quantitative, but also qualitative. It can be said that science has entered a phase of old age with its typical disappointment in romantical goals and in the teleology as such, when the movement of life continues only by virtue of momentum. For the mind interested in theology, a science of this kind, prominent as it is, can only be a pure material and hardly ready to act as an interlocutor.

«The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament» is one of the leading scientific journals in biblical studies. In this bibliographic review we will consider all the publications of the journal, contained in № 4 — № 9. Especially the interesting articles should be marked on the following topics: the relationship between Israel and Edom (№ 4), apocalyptic and historiography, the book of Ruth (№ 5), king Saul and the witch of Endor (№ 6), theory of peasants’ revolution (№ 7), Micah research, comparison of 2 Kings. 22, 3 — 23, 24 and Jer. 36 (№ 8), ethics of the Old Testament (№ 9).