The Concept of Space in the Book of Judith. A Contribution to the Narrative Analysis of Old Testament Texts, par  M. Korytiaková

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In the last decade, biblical exegesis has gradually taken into consideration the so-called “spatial turn.” However, the literary concept of space and its narrative analysis have found less interest than the study of space as a social and cultural phenomenon. This obvious gap in biblical research has become the impulse for the present work, dedicated to the book of Judith. Its aim is, on the one hand, to present the narrative analysis of space as a still-developing field in non-biblical literature and, on the other, to show how this promising approach can be developed in biblical studies.

In particular, this monograph provides the narrative analysis and interpretation of space in the book of Judith in response. The first part of the study offers a synthetic overview of perceptions, concepts and theories of space from antiquity to contemporary research, and of the theoretical approaches to space in the Old Testament. The main part is dedicated to the analysis of space on the micro and macro levels of the Judith story through the application of Katrin Dennerlein’s narratological theory of space. Thus, it can be demonstrated to what extent an in-depth analysis of the notion of space can contribute to better understand its thematic and symbolic dimension in the narrative, its function of characterising persons and actions, its role as a structuring element in the story and, last but not least, as a vehicle for an ideological and theological message.

Martina Korytiaková studied theology at the Comenius University Bratislava (SK) and finished her licentiate (S.S.Lic) and doctoral studies (S.S.D) at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (I). Since 2012 she is executive manager for the Studia Biblica Slovaca. She works as scientific researcher at the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius in Bratislava (SK) and lecturer of Old Testament in the clerical seminary in Nitra (SK).

Dr Korytiaková was distinguished with the “Dr Marc and Mrs Rachelle Bibeau Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation 2021-22” of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome for the dissertation that became the present monograph.

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The Septuagint: Multilateral Focus on the Text. Proceedings of the Conference Held in Bratislava, 22-23 April 2022, éd. par H. Panczová

The phenomenon of the Septuagint is a matter of interest for several areas of research – not only for Old Testament scholars, but also for researchers of Hellenistic Judaism, patristic exegesis, translation theory and practice, and others. What they all have in common is the text of the Septuagint. Unfortunately, the research is often so compartmentalized that scholars do not know about each other’s work and cannot profit from it. The aim of the conference “The Septuagint: Multilateral Focus on the Text” was to bring together scholars studying the text of the Septuagint in its various aspects: its reconstruction, peculiarities of language, and lexical semantics in their relationship with the Semitic background and within the Greek-speaking world, whether Jewish or Christian. These different approaches to the same matter are bound to lead to mutual enrichment.

Helena Panczová, PhD in Classical Philology (Comenius University, Bratislava), is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Trnava University. She specializes in Biblical Greek, Greek lexicography (author of Greek-Slovak Dictionary from Homer to Christian Authors, 2012), and patristic exegesis. She is the editor of a Slovak patristic series, Starokresťanská knižnica, where she also contributed with her translations of Gregory of Nyssaʼs Life of Moses (2012) and Commentary on the Song of Songs (2015, 2019, 2020).

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