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The Angel of the Lord Went Out and Slew 185,000 - Theology 2 Kings 18-20
Luštinec, Vít ; Čapek, Filip (advisor) ; Sláma, Petr (referee)
Te biblical verses of 2 Kings 18-19 mention the military campaign of King Sennacherib of Assyria against Judah in the late 8th century BC. After conquering the fortifed cities of Judah, Sennacherib sent an ar- my with envoys from Lachish to Jerusalem, the seat of King Hezekiah. Te Judean king cries out to the Lord to spare the city. God hears Hez- ekiah's prayer and sends an angel who slaughters 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp, and Sennacherib returns to the capital of his empire, Nineveh, where he dies. Te aim of this paper is to compare the texts of the Book of Kings with other biblical and extra-biblical sources and to separate the historical and theological accounts of the verses on the basis of their comparison. Keywords: Book of Kings, Judea, Israel, Sennacherib, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Hezekiah, Old Testament, Deuteronomistic Teology, Archaeology, Herodotus
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The Mesha Stele: The Translation and Analysis of an Epigraphic Text
Klimešová, Michaela ; Prudký, Martin (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
This thesis introduces Mesha stele to Czech audience. The most important task was a translation of the original text into Czech and accompaning concise commentary. There are a few rewrites of several authors, which were exploited for the translation. The fundamental text is taken from Gibson. The Smelik's version was a pattern for partitioning of the text. With literary analysis, an emphasis was put on an analysis of expressions as well as comparison various parts of the texts and temporary customs as well. The stele is writen in specific temporal and local dialect, and therefore a comparison of the Mesha stele with other inscriptions of that era was quite rewarding. Separate chapter deals with topography, which is hard to be grasped. Reader might appreciate a matching of ancient and modern places on a few maps and charts. Very important part of this work is a comparison of the Mesha stele and the text from 2 Kings 3 citing Mesha, the king of Moab, who fought with the kings of Izrael, Judah, and Edom. Old Testament devotes quite long chapter to this ruler. For the completeness, there are also circumstances of the inscription's discovering. It is very bizzare because the stele was not found by controlled archeological explorations. It was even destructed and the way to its renovation was very complicated and...
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The Jordan River as seen by the natural sciences and humanitiies and its function in the Old Testament
Tomeš, Jordan ; Sláma, Petr (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the meaning of Jordan River. It tries to look at it complexly from natural, social and most notably biblical sciences' point of view. The purpose of this thesis is to define the function of the Jordan River in the Old Testament by looking at five specific Old Testament stories. The insight of the natural and social sciences brings interesting connections to the biblical research and leads to reflection about the relationship between the Old Testament Jordan River and the Jordan River that flows in Israel today.
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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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"Abomination" of the Service to Other Gods
Hurtová, Debora ; Prudký, Martin (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
The main goal of the first part is to elaborate properly the term "abomination". In the beginning it focuses generally on this topic - which verb is the term derived from, where does the term appear and in what kind of meanings. Next it pays attention to the occurences and meanings of the term in individual parts of the Old Testament: firstly in the book of Deuteronomy, the particularly in chapter 13, in the deuteronomistic literature, in the Prophets and till the end in the Proverbs. Second part is orientated on exegesis of chapter 13. The thesis proceeds clasical exegetical way of doing exegesis. The exegesis starts with own translation of chapter 13, working on a critical apparatus and lection. The thesis also contains a synopsis of the whole chapter and a language analysis of the text. Next parts of the exegesis contain a designation of the litarary form and a designation of the kind of the text. Categorization of the text into the historical, literary and canonical kontext and the description of the functions of this chapter in a wider literary context follows. After that the exegesis of component verses and gaining from the commentaries comes. Yet in the final part the comparism of chapter 17 and chapter 13 is compiled. The whole thesis closes up with the conclusion in which the results of the...
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Johannes Hempel in his works till 1945
Kovács, Kristián ; Prudký, Martin (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
I am trying to summarize life and theological work of Johannes Hempel till 1945. He was interested in special topics of Ethics of ancient Israel and Questions of profetic literature. By my research I was trying to include life and work of Johannes Hempel in his era and teological schools, define his work and compare it with other Old Testament scholars of his era. With reference to political situation of contemporar Germany (NS Regime) I prefer to accent Hempel's political ideas and engagement. At the end of my work I was trying to reflect validity and applicability of Hempel's concepts in relation with the newest research of Old Testament. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Possible Interpretations of the Designations of God in Ex 3
Kramolišová, Emilie ; Prudký, Martin (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
This master's thesis explores the relationship between the strikingly frequent designations of God (concentrated in the so called self-representation formula in Ex 3:15) in the narrative text of Exodus 3. The traditionally attractive topic of this formula (the interpretation of the tetragrammaton of hwhy) takes into consideration another similarly mysterious expression of hyha rva hyha (Ex 3:14a). The interpretation of both wordplays based on grammar surpasses the inclusion of Ex 3:13-15 delimited by the usage of the term ~v and turns back to the assurance &m[ hyha-yk (Ex 3:12). This thesis explores the interpretation of an often neglected formula of "God of fathers" affiliated with the formula of the triad of fathers bq[yw qxcy ~hrba yhla juxtaposed to the tetragrammaton of hwhy in Ex 3:15. An unsubstitutable interpretational potential of both formulas for the whole narrative of Ex 3 is testified by their significance in the Book of Genesis which is cohesive from the point of view of both form and content. The significance of the Name of God is interpreted by the direct confrontation of the traditional interpretational method based on grammatically-justified predictors of the content of hwhy with the interpretational method in the intention of the formula of "God of fathers". Keywords Genesis, God...
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Moses according to Freud: The Figure of Moses in Sigmud Freud's "Moses and Monotheism"
Polcer, Josef ; Sláma, Petr (advisor) ; Čapek, Filip (referee)
This paper discusses the perspective of Sigmund Freud on the figure of Moses. It seeks to understand the reasons for writing the book, thought paradigms, historical images, which were thought to author axis. A large part is dedicated to criticism of Freud's works, as well as psychoanalysis, which for him was a key area for understanding the history of the Jewish nation, which was constituted after a period of suppressed neuroses. Indispensable area is the multiplicity of areas of the human soul and the mentality of the Jewish community. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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