Rapport d'activités 2022-2023_final

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Événéments
Journée d’études
Orgnisée le 15 décembre 2022, la journée d’études avait pour thème Divine Election in the Latin Bible.
Un concert donné par Ibdaa School of the Arts a clos ce moment.
Quatre intervenants :
- Łukasz Popko, o.p. (EBAF) “Divine Elections : Biblical Lots and the Roman Civic
Sortitio”.
- José Manuel Cañas Reíllo, (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Madrid),
“Election in the Book of Judges: The Cases of Gideon and Samson”.
- Kevin Zilverberg, (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA),
“Praedestinatus est Filius Dei (Rom 1:4): The Biblical Bases for Augustine’s Teaching
on Divine Election”.
- Pablo Toribio, (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Madrid), “Divine Filiation
as Election: Johann Crell’s Interpretation of the Phrase Filius Dei in its Confessional
Context”.
The Bible in Jerusalem
2 – 6 Janvier 2023
“Bible in Jerusalem” 2023 met in Jerusalem, in person this year, during the customary time, the
first week of January. The end of serious worries about the recent pandemic encouraged the
participants to take full advantage of the opportunities afforded by being together in Israel. The goal
was for Dominican students and younger scholars to encourage and educate each other through the
sharing of ideas and experiences. The means of achieving the goal was threefold: exchanging ideas
from their own recent research, visiting a site of archaeological interest, and working together on a
single Bible passage with an eye to contributing to the Bible en ses Traditions project. Ten Dominican
friars, hailing from Croatia, Italy, Poland, and the United States of America participated in the
meeting this year.
The three-day meeting devoted a full day to each of the three activities.
The first day, January 3, was for research presentations. The presentations included an
exploration of the subtleties of the interpretation of Ps. 105:22a, a treatment of the reception of
Genesis 1-4 in a political treatise by John Locke, a precise semantic analysis of different terms for
rulers in the Hebrew Bible, a highly speculative paper on the authorship of Acts and the Pastoral
Letters, a text-critical analysis of 2 Kgs 13:14-21, and a reflection on the role of modern biblical
interpretation in theological studies. The diverse topics gave the other brothers interesting new ideas,
and each paper was followed by a lively discussion that resulted in useful suggestions for the
presenter.