Bartosz Adamczewski

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw · Faculty of Theology

Numerous scholars argue that the book of Ruth, with its story concerning mixed marriages of Judahites with Moabite women, consciously opposes the exclusivist rhetoric of the books of Ezra–Nehemiah. However, a detailed analysis of the narrative rhetoric of the book of Ruth, especially compared to the supersessive rhetoric of the roughly contemporary...

Is the Hebrew Bible purely a product of Jerusalem or were there various social groups who each played a role in its development during the Second Temple period? This is the guiding question of the present volume, which fills a crucial gap in recent research by combining current redactional and text-historical analysis of the Hebrew Bible with the l...

The images of Judea and the Judean Yahwism in the book of Judges are highly variegated. The image of Judahite civil leadership, inasmuch as it is theocratic and oriented positively towards Ephraim, is here positive (Judg 3:8–11; 19:3–9). On the contrary, the image of the rival, separatist sanctuary of Yahweh in Jerusalem is here very negative (Judg...

The article analyses the recent history and development of Catholic biblical scholarship in Poland. It points to the role of the pastoral situation and activity of the Catholic Church in this development. It presents the current situation of Catholic biblical scholarship in Poland. It describes notable recent achievements of Polish Catholic biblica...

The rhetorical impact of the explicit and allusive references to Gerizim and Jerusalem in the first seven books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis-Judges) implies that all these writings originate from the territory of Ephraim, and not from Judah. Their rhetoric consistently highlights the importance of the central sanctuary of Yahweh in the region of Sh...

The book demonstrates that the books of Samuel–Kings, taken together, are a result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of almost 2000 strictly sequentially organized, conceptual, and at times, also linguistic correspondences between Samuel–Kings and Deuteronomy. The strictly s...

The similarities between Noah's ark and the saving boat in Mesopotamian flood accounts are widely known. Likewise known are the links between Noah's ark and the chest of Moses (Exod 2:3). However, the connections between the "chest" of Noah and the "chest" of the testimony have not hitherto drawn adequate scholarly attention. The article explores t...

The allusion to Aristophanes' Birds plays an important role in the intertextual-illustrative rhetoric of the Lucan parable of the unjust steward (Lk 16:1-8). People generally assume that good legal systems promote moral honesty and legal justice. Against this background, the Pauline idea of the presence of the law, but also its ineffectiveness in g...

Several important features of the narrative character of Abraham allude to the features of the historical person of Sanballat, the first Israelite governor of the Persian province of Samaria. The most important common features of Abraham and Sanballat are the origin in the city of Haran, a non-Yahwistic name, being related to the cult of the moon g...

A thorough analysis of the genealogies in Gen 4:17–5:32 has shown that they are the result of a highly creative (hypertextual) and at the same time strictly sequential reworking of an older text of Deut 2:9–23. This means that the theories postulating the genealogies in Gen 4:17–5:32 as having come from various hypothetical sources of the Pentateuc...

This monograph demonstrates that the book of Deuteronomy is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Ezekiel. Likewise, it shows that the books of Joshua–Judges, taken together, are a result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. In both cases, the detailed reworking consists of almost...

This monograph demonstrates that the books of Exodus–Numbers, taken together, are the result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,200 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Exodus–Numbers and Deuteronomy. The...

This monograph demonstrates that the book of Genesis is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,000 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Genesis and Deuteronomy. The strictly sequential, hypertextual depen...

One of the most important goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development concerns life on land (SDG15). It seems that among the issues mentioned in SDG15, soil degradation and preservation is the matter which is least studied in theory and most neglected in practice. “Soil is the key to life on this planet – the foundation for...

The New Testament articles published in the Polish theological journal Collectanea Theologica initially (1920–1965) had significant apologetic features. After the Second Vatican Council (1966–1989), they became more pastorally oriented. Especially in the years 1990–2006, many articles were devoted to the relationships between Christianity and Judai...

It is not possible today to prove beyond doubt that at least some of the Dead Sea Scrolls had Pharisaic origins. On the other hand, it is likewise not possible to prove beyond doubt that they were written by the Essenes, the Sadducees, etc. The arguments presented in this paper show that (a) the distinctive use of the key phrase מעשי התורה / ἔργα ν...

The underlying perspective of the present volume contributes to the recent historical debate on Yahwistic diversity in the Persian and the Hellenistic periods. A broad variety of different Yahwistic (and not necessarily Jewish) groups existed inside and outside Judah during the sixth to first century BCE, for example in Egypt (Elephantine/Jeb and A...

This monograph demonstrates that the Fourth Gospel is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The detailed reworking consists of around 900 strictly sequentially organized thematic, and at times also linguistic correspondences between John and Acts. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts ex...

A detailed comparative analysis of the fragments Jn 4 and Acts 8 reveals that Jn 4 is linked to Acts 8 with the use of 48 sequentially ordered correspondences.These correspondences are mainly conceptual-thematic (John’s use of Lucan ideas), but also linguistic (John’s use of Lucan phrases, keywords, etc.).In order to illustrate the ideas from Acts,...

This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential way, of the Acts of the Apostles. This str...

In the relatively early Book of Deuteronomy, the idea of ‘holy war’, with its ban on other nations dwelling in the land of Israel, primarily functions as a sign of fidelity towards God and not assimilating to other nations in matters of religion. The later books of Genesis and Exodus are much more irenic. They show the problem of evil within humans...

A detailed intertextual analysis of the links between Mt 2:13-15 and the Lucan text Acts 3 leads to the conclusion that the fragment Mt 2:13-15 is an outcome of strictly sequential, but on the other hand highly creative reworking of the ideas, motifs, and key words which occur in Acts 3. Therefore, it can be argued that the quotation from Hos 11:1...

This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Luke is a result of twofold, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of Paul's Letter to the Galatians. The ideas of this letter were sequentially illustrated by Luke with the use of numerous literary motifs, taken from other Pauline and post-Pauline letters, the letters of James, Peter, and Jude,...

A detailed intertextual analysis of the links between Mt 2:13-15 and the Lucan text of Acts 3 leads to the conclusion that the text of Mt 2:13-15 is an outcome of a strictly sequential, but on the other hand a highly creative reworking of the ideas, motifs, and key words which occur in Acts 3. Therefore, it can be argued that the quotation from LXX...

In the Acts of the Apostles, there are two quotations from the Book of Amos: Am 5:25-27 in Acts 7:42-43 and Am 9:11-12 in Acts 15:16-18. Both of them were taken from the Greek version of the Septuagint, and in several places reworked in order that they might better suit Luke’s theological-rhetorical aims. The quotation from Am 9:11-12 LXX was suppl...

This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Mark is a result of a consistent, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of the contents of three of Paul’s letters: Galatians, First Corinthians and Philippians. Consequently, it shows that the Marcan Jesus narratively embodies the features of God’s Son who was revealed in the person, teaching,...

This book demonstrates that the Gospels originated from a sequential hypertextual reworking of the contents of Paul’s letters and, in the case of Matthew and John, of the Acts of the Apostles. Consequently, the new quest for the historical Jesus, which takes this discovery into serious consideration, results in a rather limited reconstruction of Je...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the issue of the fundamental relationships which may be traced between the Bible and the European (and not only Semitic) culture became the subject of an intense scholarly discussion. Among others, early Christian centos, which are para-Gospel works written in the style of Homer and Virgil, undergo scru...

Using the method of critical intertextual research, this book demonstrates that Deuteronomy (written c. 500 BC) is an Israelite sequential hypertextual reworking of Ezekiel, that Genesis and Exodus-Numbers (written c. 400 BC) are Israelite sequential hypertextual reworkings of Deuteronomy, and that Samuel-Kings (written c. 300 BC) is a Judaean sequ...

This series welcomes publications of European and also non-European scholars who specialize in theology, philosophy and history of religions. The series is intended to promote internationalization of the results of academic research on theological, philosophical and historical-religious questions. Contributions to the series may deal with both part...

Using the method of critical intertextual research, this book analyses the phenomena of hypertextuality and ethopoeia in the New Testament writings against the background of the Second Temple literature, the historical Jesus, and the historical Paul. The work demonstrates that all twenty post-Pauline writings including the Gospels, like some of Pau...

The antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5:21-48) illustrate Paul’s idea that the commandments of the Law are summed up in the summons to love one’s neighbour. Their particular scriptural character and their form of diatribe allude to the Lukan depiction of Saul-Paul as disputing in Jerusalem with both Jews and Hellenists. The attribution of P...

The work analyses the current state of research on the problem of the relationship of the Fourth Gospel to the Synoptic Gospels. It proves that the Fourth Gospel, which was written c. AD 140-150, is a result of systematic, sequential, hypertextual reworking of the Acts of the Apostles with the use of the Synoptic Gospels, more than ten other early...

The work establishes the relative and absolute chronology of Paul's life. It demonstrates that Paul went to Jerusalem only two times after his conversion. The second visit, which was planned in Rom and described retrospectively in Gal, ended up with the Antiochene conflict. The following Eucharistic schism within early Christianity has lasted for a...

The study analyses the current state of research on the synoptic problem and proves that the Synoptic Gospels were written in the Mark, Luke, Matthew order of direct literary dependence. Moreover, the work demonstrates that the Synoptic Gospels are results of systematic, sequential, hypertextual reworking of the contents of the Pauline letters. Acc...

Several works preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Daniel, Apocalypse of Weeks, Animal Apocalypse, Pesher on the Apocalypse of Weeks, Apocrypha of Jeremiah C and D, Melchizedek – present various heptadic calculations of the end of the postexilic epoch of iniquity in Israel. Particular ways of constructing relative chronology vary considerably in thes...

4Q390 is a document akin to but not identical with Apocryphon of Jeremiah C. It presents the exilic and postexilic era of history of Israel as a period of 70 x 7 = 70 + 7 x 49 + 70 + 7 years of forced theocracy. 4Q390 may partially account for the rise of Messianic expectations in Israel ca. 200-175 B.C. and ca. 103-96 B.C.

Linguistic, literary, and historical analysis of 4QMMT B 55-58 shows that this text deals most probably not with the transmission of ritual impurity up the stream by liquids poured from one vessel to another, but with the alleged impurity of water conveyed to the Temple by its pre-Herodian water-supply system. The source of this impurity may have b...

This monograph is an exegetical commentary in Polish on the Letter to Philemon and the Letter to the Colossians.

In the period of last two or three decades interpretation of the Letter to Philemon has undergone significant changes. Exegetes applying the historical-critical method proposed recently several new ways of reconstructing the situation that occasioned Paul’s writing the letter. It has been suggested e.g. that Onesimus was no runaway, but probably an...

Paul’s imagery of the Body of Christ as a description of the Church differs from its plausible hellenistic parallels, among other things, in bringing into prominence the “weaker”, shameful members of the Body (1 Cor 12:22-24). They are considered necessary for the Body not primarily because of the importance of their function for the whole, but bec...

In the Gospel scene of the Visitation Luke hints at three basic aspects (or better to say: levels) of Mary’s faith. The first one is the “parental” faith of the Virgin, believing that she has really become pregnant – the words of Elisabeth are for Mary the first clear evidence of this fact. The second aspect is the “theological” belief that Mary’s...

James „the Lord’ brother” draws much attention of historical, theological and also archaeological scholarship in the last years. In the period of looking for common beliefs of Christianity and Judaism, many researchers treat James as the lost link between the early Palestinian community of the followers of Jesus and the mainstream of the early Juda...

The fragment Mk 2:18-22 consists of two originally separate units: Mk 2:18-20 and 2:20-21. Each of them plays on the OT idea of covenant, which has not been broken by human sins, but is freshly renewed by merciful God. The new covenant of spousal love established in Jesus is not only an accomplished fact, but also always a challenge and invitation...

According to the Letter to the Ephesians, evangelisation of Israel is not less important than evangelisation of the Gentiles. Israel, though it has been granted several privileges as the People of Covenants (Eph 2,12), is still in need of reconciliation and peace with God and with other nations (2,3.14-17). Only by accepting the gospel of Christ Is...