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Using Old Testament Themes and Their Original Interpretation in the Works of John Steinbeck
Straková, Kateřina ; Čapek, Filip (advisor) ; Sláma, Petr (referee)
Using Old Testament Themes and their Original Interpretation in the works of John Steinbeck 5 The issue of my thesis is the reflection of biblical themes and narratives in secular literature. In the concrete, I am focusing on the specific interpretation of Old Testament themes in the works of an American author of the 1st half of the 20 th Century, John Steinbeck. From his novels, I have chosen three for the analysis - To a God Unknown, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. I approached the novels with criticism, yet I did not strive to give the stories a meaning different from the intention of the author. I am focusing especially on biblical symbolism used in the novels and on parallelisms between biblical and Steinbeck's narratives. Both the symbolism and the parallelisms are traced in each novel separately, yet I try to point to the motives which are used in all of the novels chosen, e.g. settling the "promissed land". Steinbeck starts with simple symbols and then he passes to more complicated and elaborated ones. The symbolism of first names is a good example for this. Steinbeck starts with simple symbolism in the novel To a God Unknown, a symbolism I called direct symbolism where a character bears the same name as his/her biblical pattern. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck elaborates what I...
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Between Tradition and Experiment: Evangelic Communities in Germany - History and Today
Slípková, Kateřina ; Filipi, Pavel (advisor) ; Sláma, Petr (referee)
My main intention in my thesis is to introduce protestant Christian communities, which are similar to some catholic orders. These communities rise from the tradition and they go along with the tradition. They were (are) in close connection with biblical and reformed tradition even though they were (are) teaching and living in the radical following of Christ. These communities follow communal pattern of life according to early Jerusalem community (Act 2,42 and Act 4,32-37). They are different from state churches (Landeskirche) that mainly follow Paul's theological pattern of a church. Despite this fact these communities have certain meaning about their call to serve to local churches and they feel to be "one body" with state churches (Landeskirchen). These communities refer to critiques of M.Luther in they way he denounced the condition of monkshood. They also refer to after reformed tradition community tradition. And finally they can refer to their own tradition. One of the concrete expressions of spirituality represents oath and their keeping through daily life. In my thesis I wrote about the oath in common communities in general and practical way. I focused on two communities: Communität Casteller Ring a Ev. Marienschwesternschaft (Sisterhood of Mary). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Joseph Soloveitchik's philosophy of religion
Lyčka, Milan ; Sobotka, Milan (advisor) ; Karásek, Jindřich (referee) ; Sláma, Petr (referee)
Joseph Soloveitchik (1903 - 1993), rabbi and philosopher, one of the most important representatives of modern Jewish Orthodoxy, has made an attempt to translate traditional Jewish religious concepts in the language of modern science and philosophy. As a philosopher, he was versed in the Neo-Kantian philosophy of the Marburg School, as a rabbi he was under the influence of the so-called Analytical School, founded in Eastern Europe by members of his family. From the philosophical heritage of Neo-Kantianism he adopted the emphasis on the pureness of thought, understood as mathematical and scientific, and from the direct Kant's inheritance he endorsed particularly his a priori concept of pure forms of sensible intuition and cognitive categories. The Analytic School affected him through their emphasis on a non-historical analysis of religious concepts, leading to their deeper knowledge, and in the same time establishing a new relation to the Transcendent. In this way, Soloveitchik has rehabilitated religion as a noesis and aimed at its philosophical reflection. The central notion of his religious philosophy is halakhah, traditionally conceived as a set of norms and commandments ruling the life of a practising Jew. In Soloveitchik's view the halakhah has become a philosophical concept, a hermeneutic key to the...
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Sinchronic Methods of Interpreting of Hebrew Proper Names in the Old Testament and Rabbinic Literature
Řehák, Robert ; Prudký, Martin (advisor) ; Sláma, Petr (referee) ; Nosek, Bedřich (referee)
This doctoral thesis submitted to the The Protestant Theological Faculty of the Charles University in Prague in 2007 studies [in the framework of biblical onomatology] synchronic methods of interpretation of Hebrew proper names in the Old Testament and in rabbinic literature. The thesis reveals, denominates, and defines, through quoting examples, thirteen main methods of interpretation of Hebrew biblical proper names, which include the following: identification with words of identical consonants, derivation from verb roots, decomposition, repeated use of the consonants, notaricon, gematry, atbash, ahas bata, retrograde reading, metathesis, replacement of consonants, transposition of all consonants and derivation from other language. For every given method, the thesis cites the source of onomatological phenomenon, analyzes it and tries to apply the interpretation method on other Hebrew biblical proper names which are not yet decoded. The thesis attempts, in its conclusion, to apply all the potential methods of interpretation on one selected proper name. Following such application, the number of possible interpretations rises. When applied to the Hebrew proper name Simon, the number of possible interpretations of one proper name reached 22 interpretations. Application of all the possible methods of...
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An outline of numerical functions in Tanak
Klíma, Lukáš ; Prudký, Martin (advisor) ; Sláma, Petr (referee)
This essay deals with the function of the numerical relations within the Hebrew Bible(Tanak). It proceeds on three levels. The first level presents the formative function of numbers, which by means of of gematria influences the shape of proper names and numerical data. The second level is concerned with the compositional function of numbers, important for the formal aspect of poetic texts in particular. Any numerical datum is carrying out this function through deliberate number of forming elements (i.e. sections, words and letters). The third level focuses on the kerygmatic function of numbers, opperative by commonly shared symbolism and illustrated by several historiographic and apocalyptic texts. The numerical symbols reflect the quality of objects they relate to and, at the same time, they contextulize them within Biblical canon. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Widows and Orphans as the Embodiment of Weaknessand Powerlessness: an Old Testament Wiew
Krčková, Dagmara ; Sláma, Petr (advisor) ; Vymětal, Mikuláš (referee)
This bachelor thesis solve a position of widows and orphans according to the Old Testament. Widows and orphans epitomize weakness and helplessness from this view. In thesis I analyse citations from Bible in which widows and orphans are demonstrated as a underprivileged groups. In thesis I present as well others underprivileged groups: slaves, levijs, homelesses and foreigners. Next I show how was exercitation social rules in the care of human, which is in onerous situation, according to the Old Testament. Social move doesn't not only about preservation of life, but about welfare of life too. In thesis I present tradition in care of weakness human in Jewish Community, which are preserved for centuries. And I open a question if could be this tradition in care of weakness human an inspiration for today. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Eclesial Dimension of the Old Testament Feast of Pesach: IN and OUT
Kotmelová, Bedřiska ; Sláma, Petr (advisor) ; Ber, Viktor (referee)
The bachelor ́s thesis "The Ecclesiastical Dimension of the Old Testament Celebration of Pesach: IN and OUT" explores the phenomenon of exclusion in the Old Testament, in particular the exclusion from the feast of Pesach. The exclusion concerned impure persons and excommunicated persons. Consequently, the question of three groups is discussed whose standing was ambiguous: foreigners, women and physically disabled. Based on the analysis of Old Testament texts, the matter of openness and closeness of the Israeli community is simultaneously analysed, as it is reflected in the Easter feasts. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Use of Psalms in Pastoral Care
Matulíková, Magda ; Filipi, Pavel (advisor) ; Sláma, Petr (referee)
This work aims to explore the possibility of using the biblical book of Psalms in pastoral counseling. Doing so, it wants to be synthesis of the Church's tradition, from the beginning recognizing the healing potential of Psalms, a new perspective on the correlation of the Old Testament Exegesis science and experience, and some impulses from the theory of pastoral care. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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