https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32267 2026-04-14T06:48:56Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32455 Title: Issues in Bible Translation, 7 : translating ovτὀς in 2 John 7 Abstract: The need to reconsider the translation of the second half of this verse in our Bible arose when Rev Prof Donatus Spiteri OFM Cap raised within the Permanent Biblical Commission of the Malta Bible Society, meeting on 12th April 2006, the issue of some grammatical discrepancy between the singular demonstrative pronoun ovτὀς. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32344 Title: Contemporary society's threat to Sacramentality Abstract: A significant threat to sacramentality, to the sense of the sacred [sacrare, "to make holy"], that contemporary society poses to both religious thought and expression is its denial or mitigation of the numinous quality of human experience. The sense that one moves in a constant encounter - a dance, really - with that which is not entirely known and which cannot fully be expressed is a sense increasingly dulled. The sense of the numinos, the holy, the mysterious inenarrability of the divine, has been seriously compromised by a contemporary approach to religious experience that is forensic [in that it cuts open a body to see how it works]; reductionist [in that if it cannot be easily explained in materialistic terms, then it is dismissed]; and mechanistic [in that actions are understood in a manner divorced from their meaning]. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32339 Title: Le ideologie del rotolo della guerra (1QM) : studio sulla genesi e la datazione dell'opera [Book Review] Abstract: A review of the book "Le ideologie del rotolo della guerra (1QM) : studio sulla genesi e la datazione dell'opera", written by Giovanni Ibba. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32338 Title: Inspiration, authority and hermeneutics Abstract: Probably no one will deny that for Christians the Bible is a book, or more correctly, a collection of books, of special significance and value. This special significance and value is very often described in terms of "scriptural authority" which is related to and coming from the authority of God. This special significance and value of the Bible has also been understood by certain special status conferred on the Bible in comparison with other writings and literatures. Therefore, we have terms such as "canon" and "sacred literature;" and these terms also indicate the existence of a borderline that separates those which are of this special significance and value and those which are not. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z