Egyháztörténeti Szemle 15. (2014)
2014 / 3. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Tóth Tamás Zoltán: Therapeutae' were Christians? - Oláh Róbert: Bibles at the Libraries of the Hungarian Reformed Ministers in the Early Modern Period
Summaries in English Summaries in English ’Therapeutae’ were Christians? Tóth, Tamás Zoltán Yet, that is the most accepted paradigm: the Therapeutae was a Jewish religion community in Egypt (on the first century A. C.), that was not Christian. But this paradigm is only supported by the nature of the only source of the existence of the Therapeutae-party by Philo of Alexandria: De vita contemplativa. Philo was a Jewish Hellenist philosopher, who only allegorically explained the Pentateuch, about other biblical or traditional sources he did not remember. On the other hand: the Jewish-Christianity in this epoch was not different truly from other Jewish parties. In my essay I tty to evaluate the indirect evidences of the hypothesis that the Therapeutae-party was indeed a type of Christianity. 1. The cause of the celibacy of the Essenes of Qumran was to become pure. But the Therapeutae have not just male but female celibacy, that not account for ritual purity, because the menstruation. In this epoch only one Jewish person looked with favor at the non-purifical celibacy: the Benja- minite Paul apostle on lCor. 7. cap. Perhaps, the Therapeutae were thaught Christianity by someone, who was acquainted with Paul, like e.g. Apollos, the Alexandrian. 2. The Therapeutae’s Pentecostal meal in contrast with of the other types of Qiddush ceremonies did not consecrate wine, but used water, for the same purpose. It does have some Christian allusions: Acts of Apostles 2:13., the Encratites etc. 3. The Therapeutae’s Pentecostal cultic dance also put in mind of the story the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Twelve in the Acts of Apostles 2. cap. Bibles at the Libraries of the Hungarian Reformed Ministers in the Early Modern Period Oláh, Róbert The purpose of this paper is to examine the access of the Hungarian Reformed ministers to the Bible in the Early Modern Period, based on the published sources of the Contributions to the history of the intellectual and cultural movements in the Carpathian basin from the 16th through the 18th century (Adattár X\T-XVIII. századi szellemi mozgalmaink történetéhez). Synods in the 16th and 17th century regularly brought to the attention of preachers to acquire and study the Bible, on occasions even threatening them with the loss of office for neglecting this duty. Our ministers were in a disadvantageous situation because of the small number of the Hungarian Bible editions, and consequently of their high price. It was hard to access the Bibles printed abroad (mainly in Latin) because of the difficulties of the bookselling in the Carpathian Basin. In the period from 1597 to 1748, 61 booklists from 51 preachers can be presented, altogether
