The Four Problems which Old Testament Married Couples Grapple with

In the context of a lively debate on the encyclic of Pope Francis Amoris laetitia, in this article I take up the four most important problems that marriages in the Old Testament grappled with: polygamy, or marrying multiple spouses, lack of offspring, infidelity, or betrayal, and divorce. It is only against this issues that the profound novum of Catholic teaching on marriage emerges. The proposal will be that problems afflicting couples of biblical time are not so different from the ones besetting contemporary couples.W kontekście żywo dyskutowanej encykliki papieża Franciszka o małżeństwie Amoris laetitia w artykule podejmuję cztery najistotniejsze problemy, z jakim borykały się małżeństwa w Starym Testamencie: poligamia, brak potomstwa, niewierność czy zdrada oraz rozwód. Właśnie w tym kontekście ukazuje się w pełni specyfika katolickiego nauczania o matrymonium. Proponowana teza mówi, że problemy dotykające małżonków opisanych na kartach Biblii nie są odległe od tych, z którymi mierzą się dzisiejsze pary

Biblia i nauka. Siedem refleksji inspirowanych myślą ks. Michała Hellera

The aim of the article is to show some areas where the results of exegesisand biblical theology should be confronted with the latest discoveries ofscience on the world, nature, evolution, the human being, the brain, free will,psychology and morality. The author compares, shows difficulties arisingfrom, and attempts to reconcile Christian anthropology with the image ofman that emerges from well-established scientific truths. This paper is anintroduction and an invitation to a discussion on this topic

Zwierzęta czyste i nieczyste w Starym Testamencie. Porządek stworzenia jako kryterium podziału

The article explicates the symbolic information in the biblical divisionof animals between clean and unclean (Lev 11 and Dt 14). This is the thirdarticle in the series. In the first article on the subject of unclean animalsin the Bible, I dealt with the discussion of legislation in this field. In the second article I presented and analyzed the exegetes’ previous interpretations regarding the division of animals in the Bible. Because they proved to be unsatisfactory to me, in this part I proposed my own hypothesis: the exclusion of unclean animals is regulated by the Priestly (P) theology of creation and the rules of the universe created by God contained in Gen 1

Repetition and not Parallelism as the Determinant of Poetry in the Hebrew Bible. A Case Study of Biblical Story of Creation (Gen 1)

The article points to new research on the subject of poetics in the Bible and argues against the thesis that the basic indicator of poetry and poetic texts in the Bible is parallelism.According to the author, repetition is such an indicator. An analysis of the biblical story of creation of the world was used as the case study (Gen 1)

Metryka parafii ormiańskiej w Zamościu z lat 1694-1776

THE METRICS OF THE ARMENIAN PARISH IN ZAMOŚĆ FROM THE YEARS 1694-1776 The metrical notes of the Armenian Catholic parish in Zamość from the years 1694-1776, kept in the Wasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library, constitute nowadays the only known register of the baptisms and marriages administered in this parish. This source also includes a few notes of chronicle character and a copy of the will of the Armenian wójt Stefan Ałtunowicz. The publication is an edition of metrical entries and other notes. Its issue aim at providing researches with material for linguistic, genealogic, statistic and demographic, social, and cultural studies.