"Zbliżyć się aby słuchać" (Koh 4, 17) : studia - rewizje - glosy biblijne

This book, addressed not so much to biblical scholars (although, I hope, they will also find here some aspects to reflect on and discuss), but to a wide range of enthusiasts of biblical thought and tradition, is a collection of six studies and five causal commentaries, which are intended to be sort of an intellectual, humble invitation to a critical, philological consideration of the text of the Old and New Covenant. Among the analyses, which partially are a revision of various studies and biblical and theological interpretations, there are reflections regarding successively: violence in the books of the Old and New Testament; analysis of all Old Testament excerpts which contain a suicide theme; a sample of new exegesis, the so called Parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16, 1-13) which once, rather rightfully, was described by Rudolf Bultmann as „an unsolvable mystery”; discussion on biblical irony and humour (an aspect which is almost non-existent in Polish biblical studies, and is even considered taboo); an overview of biblical themes in Francesco Petrarca’s selected Latin letters (field of ubi leones in European Neo-Latin Philology); and, finally, study on the silence in the work of renowned Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel.