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Hermeneutics or Versions of Biblical Text Interpretation
Szeged International Biblical Conference No. 33, 23rd - 25th August, 2022
Szeged, Dóm tér, Visitors’ Centre
Patrons: Szeged-Csanád Diocesan Dr. László Kiss-Rigó, Prof. Dr. Szabolcs Szuromi rector emeritus (PPKE), Prof. Dr. Oda Wiscmeyer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Prof. Dr Martin Meiser, University of Saarland, Prof. Dr. Levente Balázs Martos, member of the Pontifica Comissione Biblica, Prof. Dr. Imre Kocsis, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Prof. Dr. Ottó Pecsuk, President of the Ecumenical Bible Society, Dr. Zoltán Kustár, Debrecen Reformed Theological University, Prof. Dr. Tibor Fabiny, Director of the Hermeneutics Centre.
Hungary is a multi-confessional country, and although it uses virtually the same Bible, many Christian denominations interpret it differently. The same is true for the Hungarian Christian communities beyond the border, in the Historical Hungarian Highlands (part of Slovakia), Transylvania (Part of Romania), Southern Hungary (Part of Serbian), Sub-Carpathia (part of Ukraine) and Burgenland (Part of Austria), in other words, all the areas where Hungarians live beyond the border. Because of their different historical and biblical interpretations of the text, the relationship between these Christian confessions is very variable, but in general their relationship is characterised by little knowledge of the basic doctrines of the other ones and even less of the theoretical basis of their biblical interpretation, i.e., their biblical hermeneutics.
A pioneer in this field is a volume edited by Oda Wischmeyer entitled "Biblical Hermeneutics from Ancient Genesis to the Present" (de Gruyter 2016), which presents these most important biblical hermeneutics across historical and denominational boundaries, and has therefore been translated into Hungarian. It is clear from this volume that Biblical Hermeneutics is not an invention of the Reformation, but that there were many later studies of the subject in Christian antiquity as well as in the Middle Ages. All of these can help us to understand the development of hermeneutics after 1950, in which philosophical, literary and legal-hermeneutical trends are presented, as appropriate. In Hungary it was perhaps the recently deceased professor of philosophy István M. Fehér who has been the most profound in this field. He discovered that today's hermeneutics research is a further development of the earlier biblical hermeneutics research.
In Hungary, there has never been a conference organized that would present biblical hermeneutics and the literary, philosophical, and legal hermeneutical trends simultaneously. In fact, the history of church history and the history of philosophy only deal with hermeneutics quite superficially. Many believe that presenting the history of institutions or events reveals the history of thinking within the Church. The histories of theology often focus merely on the presentation of systematic theology (dogmatics), or perhaps on debates about the tendencies called heretical, and these descriptions at most enter in a more intensive contact with the history of philosophy.
The changes in the interpretation of the Bible, the various biblical hermeneutical concepts and their various literary-theoretical, philosophical and other connections shed new light on this almost two-thousand-year-old process, the full exploration of which is seriously lacking not only in Hungarian, but also in international literature. It is hoped that our hermeneutical conference will inspire not only biblical scholars but also theologians, literary scholars, historians, philosophers, linguists, cultural anthropologists, aestheticians, classicist philologists, and even political scientists and legal scholars to reflect on the relationship between text and reader.
To register for the conference, academics working on the topic can send an e-mail with the title of their presentation in Hungarian and in German/English (benyik.gyorgy@gmail.com) or subscribe to the Google spreadsheet on the conference website - http://www.sznbk1988.hu/hu - between 10th January and 1st June 2022.
All presenters, especially Hungarian ones, are kindly requested to send a summary of their presentation (German or English) by email to benyik.gyorgy@gmail.com by 1 June 2022 at the latest. Please make sure not to extend 1500 characters. up to a maximum of 1500 characters, by 15th June 2022 at the latest. The abstract should contain the title of the lecture and the source texts as well as the most important theses of the given lecture.
At the conference, lectures should not exceed 20 minutes which is followed by a brief and mainly professional debate (a maximum of 10 minutes). On each day of the conference, if there is time, everyone can take part in a workshop session, in small groups, presided by the lecturers. One can give their lecture at the conference in Hungarian. However, in this case the speaker must provide for a comprehensive summary in German or in English or should make a Power Point presentation or hand out the whole text without footnotes in one of the above languages. The lecturer should provide these on their own.
We plan to publish the presentations in English/German about a year after the conference (2023) and distribute the book to about 70 universities. The extension of the written study should be between 25.000 and 30.000 characters with spaces included. The voice material of the lectures and the summaries will be uploaded to the homepage of the Conference. The deadline for sending us the final version of the lecture is 19th November 2022.
Please, make sure that the Hebrew, Greek, Syrian etc. words are transcribed in Latin according to scholarly transcription. The publication of texts arriving after the 26th of November 2022 may be doubtful. In case your text extends the above-mentioned length, it should be negotiated and permitted by the editor.
First-time lecturers should also send a short scientific biography – it should not exceed 5.000 characters with spaces – mentioning their three most important publications (books) along. We would kindly ask you all to provide us with your scholarly title and your current workplace.
We offer free board and lodging lecturers for the time of the conference as well as participation in the cultural programmes free of charge. Persons accompanying our lecturers are not automatically catered for free of charge. Please, inform us as soon as possible and before 1st June 2022 if you have any special requirement concerning meals.
The Conference is open to all; university students/ students of theology may register with a discount.
Please help the organizers by making sure that you inform us about the exact date of your arrival and departure by 1st June 2022 at the latest.
After the application, we will send you a registration form to be filled in by 1st June 2022. The registration will be complete upon return of the completed form, of which the conference organiser will send a confirmation.
Szeged, 4th January 2022
Dr. György Benyik PhD
director of Szeged International Biblical Conference
Registration card (docx)
Applying for lectures at a conference (Google sheet)
The Galatians and the Letter to the Galatians
Conference from 23-25. 08. 2021
Registration for a conference presentation: by May 31, 2021,
(for guests: 08/01/2021)
The conference is organized by the Szeged International Biblical Conference Foundation.
Conference patrons:
Dr. László Kiss-Rigó, Bishop of Szeged-Csanád, Prof. Dr. Szabolcs Szuromi em. Rector (PPKE), Prof. Dr. Balázs Lente Martos, member of the Pontifical Biblical Committee.
The letter of St. Paul to the Galatians is also seen as a draft of the letter to the Romans, and the experts certainly consider it an authentic letter from Paul. In a geographically and ethnically very complex community, in the background of the letter are the problems of the Christian mission that has already begun, the theoretical debates about different directions within the Christian community, as well as the relationship between the early Christian community and the Jewish diaspora community. The conference seeks primarily to examine the philosophical and historical facts behind the text of the letter.
We ask you to do the same in your presentation. But we are also interested in the reception of the letter in early Christian literature and the parallels of his theses, which are reflected in Hellenistic philosophy. Traditionally, every lecture at our conference is based on specific text analyzes, where the citation of secondary literature is expected.
For the conference, please give the Hungarian and German / English title of your presentation by email (benyik.gyorgy@gmail.com) or enter it yourself in the Google spreadsheet on the conference website (http: // www.sznbk1988.hu/hu). From November 19th, 2020 this will be possible for university lecturers who deal with the topic, and this registration option will be available until June 1st, 2021.
We ask all professionals who speak Hungarian as their mother tongue and who would like to give a lecture to send a short summary (1500 characters long) of their lecture in Hungarian and in a foreign language (German or English) to Mr. Benyik by email at the latest by 01.06.2021 to be sent. This summary should contain the title of the lecture (in two languages), the source texts and the main theses of the lecture. Non-Hungarians are requested to send the title and the summary of the lecture to Mr. Benyik in English or German.
A lecture at the conference lasts 20 minutes (the length of the written study is 25-30,000 characters with spaces), followed by a technical discussion lasting a maximum of ten minutes. If there is time, there is a so-called workshop every day at the conference, where everyone can take part in a discussion in a group of their own choosing, where the current speakers lead the conversation. The lecture can also be given in Hungarian, but then the speaker must give a summary or a Power Point presentation in German or English or provide a full text (without footnotes) for the audience.
We plan to publish the lectures given in August 2020 in English / German one year after the conference, i.e. in 2022, and to distribute this volume to around 70 universities. The deadline for submitting a print-ready text is November 19, 2021. (Publishing texts that are received after November 19 can be problematic). The audio material of the presentations and the written summaries will be published on the conference website.
In the studies, Hebrew, Greek, Syrian etc. words should be written in original or in Latin letters according to the scientific transcription. The publication of those texts that would exceed the specified length requires an extra discussion and editorial approval.
Those who are going to give a presentation at our conference for the first time should also send us their short scientific biography (max. 5000 characters), or if you can already find it on the Internet, a link to it along with a reference to your three provide major publications (books). Please also indicate your current academic degree and your job title.
We offer our speakers free board and lodging for the duration of the conference, as well as free participation in various cultural programs. Not all of these possibilities can automatically be offered for persons accompanying the speakers.
Please state your special wishes regarding the food by 01.06.2021.
The conference is open to the public, we also offer students registration for a reduced price.
In order to be able to guarantee a smooth organization, please give your arrival and departure dates by 01.06.2021 at the latest.
Szeged, October 19, 2020.
Dr. György Benyik PhD
Director SZNBK
Applying for lectures at a conference (Google sheet)
Sacrifice and ritual. From Abraham to Christ
The date of the conference
24th-26th August, 2020
Venue of the conference:
Szeged Dóm, Látogatóközpont (Votive Church of Szeged, Visitors’ Centre)
Deadline for subscription
for our lecturers: 31st May 2020; for our guests: 1st August, 2020
The Biblical Conference in 2020 is organized by Szeged International Biblical Conference Foundation.
Patrons of the Conference:
Dr. György Jakubinyi, archbishop of Alba Iulia, Dr. Szeged-Csanád Diocesan László Kiss-Rigó, Prof. Dr. Szabolcs Szuromi rector emeritus (PPKE) Prof. Dr. Levente Balázs Martos, member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute.
The 52nd International Eucharistic Congress is going to be held in Hungary in 2020; at the same time, Protestant Churches are organizing a Conference of Communion. Szeged International Biblical Conference is expecting researchers of the Old and New Testaments, Historians of Antiquity and Patristics Experts to introduce us to the cultural history of rituals and sacrifices.
Lectures should be closely connected to some given text and secondary bibliography should also be included.
Four sections are available within the topic:
1. Biblical Sacrifices and Rituals in the Light of Religious Traditions of the Middle East.
2. The Interpretation of the Death of Jesus in the Scriptures of the New Testament.
3. The Last Supper of Jesus in the Documents of the New Testament and in Other Early Christian Scriptures.
Lecturers should apply for the conference by giving the title of their lecture in German/English via email (benyik.gyorgy@gmail.com) or by typing it in the Google sheet that can be found on the homepage http://www.sznbk1988.hu/hu of the Szeged International Biblical Conference from 5th June, 2019. The period of subscription starts on the 6th June, 2019 and ends 1st May, 2020.
Please send the summary of your lectures in Hungarian and in a foreign language (German / English) to my e-mail address, up to a maximum of 1500 characters, by 15th June 2020 at the latest. The abstract should contain the title of the lecture (in two languages) and the source texts as well as the most important theses of the lecture. Foreign lecturers need to send the title of their lectures and the summary either in English or in German.
Apart from those of special guests, lectures should not exceed 20 minutes, which is followed by a brief and mainly professional debate (a maximum of 10 minutes). On each day of the Conference everyone can join in the debates organized in smaller groups and presided by the lecturers in the workshop section. One may also give their lecture at the conference in Hungarian. However, in this case the speaker must provide for a comprehensive summary in German or in English or should make a Power Point presentation or hand out the whole text without footnotes in one of the above languages. The lecturer should provide these on their own.
We are planning to publish the lectures presented at the Conference in our conference volume in English/German, about one year after the conference (2021). The extension of the written study should be between 25.000 and 30.000 characters with spaces included. The Hungarian texts of the lectures and the summaries will be uploaded to the homepage of the Conference. The deadline for sending us the final version of the lecture is 26th November, 2020.
Please, make sure that the Hebrew, Greek, Syrian etc. words are transcribed in Latin according to scholarly transcription. The publication of texts arriving after the 26th of November, 2020 may be doubtful. In case your text extends the above mentioned length, it should be negotiated with and permitted by the editor.
Those who will be lecturers at our Conference for the first time should also send us their brief scholarly CVs or if it can be found on the internet, please send us the link (it should not exceed 5.000 characters with spaces) mentioning their three most important publications (books) along. We would kindly ask you all to provide us with your scholarly title and your current workplace.
We offer free board and lodging for our lecturers for the time of the conference as well as participation in the cultural programmes free of charge. Persons accompanying our lecturers are not automatically catered for free of charge. Please, inform us as soon as possible and before 1st May, 2020 if you have any special requirement concerning meals.
The Conference is open to all; university students/ students of Theology may register with a discount.
Please help the organizers by making sure that you inform us about the exact date of your arrival and departure by 1st June, 2020 at the latest.
Szeged, 24th September, 2019
Dr. György Benyik
Director for SZNBK
(Szeged International Biblical Conference)
Applying for lectures at a conference (Google sheet)
Virtue or Obligation
Date of the conference: 26th-28th August, 2019
Venue of the conference: Szegedi Dóm, Látogatóközpont
(Votive Church of Szeged, Visitors’ Centre)
Deadline for subscription for our lecturers: 1st May, 2019
Deadline for subscription for our guests: 1st August, 2019
Patrons of the Conference:
Archbishop of Alba Iulia Dr. György Jakubinyi, Diocesan Dr. László Kiss-Rigó, Rector Prof. Dr. Szabolcs Szuromi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) and Prof. Dr. Levente Balázs Martos, member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. The Biblical Conference in 2019 is organized by the Szeged International Biblical Conference Foundation.
Since the United States Bill of Rights (1789), the monstrosities of the Second World War and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UNO (1948), it has become general in Europe to think about societies independent from God and personal rights independent from obligations. Although when considering the Antiquities, we can talk about a hierarchy within the society in the communities of Jews and Christians but taking responsibility before God, the teaching of virtues and obligations and religious sanctioning were generally accepted since the appropriate practice of these fundamentally define the quality of the society and that of community life, too. The pureness of heart and the cleanliness of one’s conscience, taking part in the cult and the conditions for taking the sacraments, the personal spiritual responsibility in front of God were all very important to the whole of the society since “Because a person who eats and drinks without recognising the body is eating and drinking his own condemnation.” (1Cor 11:29)
In his opus called Republic, Plato defines four cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, courage and wisdom. In his opinion, “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” The religious foundation of theological virtues (faith, hope and love) was also rather important in the Antiquities.
Thus I call classical philologists, Jewish and Christian theologians as well as experts in Patristics to study these virtues or moral categories through focusing on a specific text or an author. Please make sure that in the text sent to be printed there is the related bibliography in footnotes.
Lecturers should apply for the conference by giving the title of their lecture in German/English via email or by typing it in the Google sheet that can be found on the homepage http://www.sznbk1988.hu/hu of the Szeged International Biblical Conference. The period of subscription starts on the 30th of January, 2019 and is closed on 1st of May, 2019.
Please submit all your lectures in Hungarian and in foreign language (German / English) to my e-mail address, up to a maximum of 1500 characters, by 15th June 2019 at the latest. The abstract should contain the title of the lecture (in two languages) and the source texts as well as the most important theses of their lecture.
Apart from those of special guests, lectures should not exceed 20 minutes, which is followed by a brief and mainly professional debate (a maximum of 10 minutes). On each day of the Conference everyone can join in the debates organized in smaller groups and presided by the lecturers in the workshop section.
One can give their lecture at the conference in Hungarian. However, in this case the speaker must provide for a comprehensive summary in German or in English or should hand out the whole text without footnotes in one of the above languages. We are planning to publish the lectures presented at the Conference in our conference volume in English/German, about one year after the conference. The extension of the written study should be between 25.000 and 30.000 characters with spaces included. The Hungarian texts of the lectures will be uploaded to the homepage of the Conference. http://www.sznbk1988.hu/hu
The deadline for sending us the final version of the lecture is 26th November, 2019.
Those who will be lecturers at our Conference for the first time should also send us their brief scholarly CVs or if it can be found on the internet, please send us the link – it should not exceed 5.000 characters with spaces) mentioning their three most important publications (books) along. We would kindly ask you all to provide us with your scholarly title and your current workplace.
Please make sure that the Hebrew. Greek, Syrian etc. words are transcribed in Latin according to scholarly transcription. The publication of texts arriving after the 26th November, 2019 may be doubtful. In case your text extends the above mentioned length, it should be negotiated and permitted by the editor.
We offer free board and lodging for our lecturers for the time of the conference as well as participation in the cultural programmes free of charge. Persons accompanying our lecturers are NOT automatically catered for free of charge. The Conference is open to all; university students/ students of Theology may register with a discount.
Please, inform us as soon as possible and before 1st May, 2019 if you have any special requirement concerning meals. Please help the organizers by making sure that you inform us about the exact date of your arrival and departure by 1st June, 2019 at the latest.
Szeged, 9th November, 2018
Dr. György Benyik PhD
Director for SZNBK (Szeged International Biblical Conference)
benyik.gyorgy@gmail.com
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Registration formulary (Word)
The Hellenistic and Judaic Background to the New Testament
Date of the conference: 27th-29th August, 2018
Venue: Dóm Conference Centre, Szeged
Deadline for subscription for our lecturers: 1st May, 2018
Patrons of the Conference:
Dr. György Jakubinyi archbishop of Alba Iulia , Dr. Diocesan László Kiss-Rigó , Prof. Dr. Joachim Gnilka, Prof. Dr. Rector Szabolcs Szuromi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest) Prof. Dr. Levente Balázs Martos, member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. The Biblical Conference in 2018 is organized by Szeged International Biblical Conference Foundation.
Our special lecturers invited include Reimund Bieriger (Leuven), Udo Schnelle (Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Karl- Wilhelm Niebuhr (Jena).
Klaus Berger Carsten Colpe (Ed.) Religionsgeschichtliches Textbuch zum Neuen Testament Texte zum Neuen Testament. Das Neue Testament Deutsch., 1987.
English version: Boring, M. Eugene, Klaus Berger, and Carsten Colpe, eds. Hellenistic Commentary to the New Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.
During the translation works of the book of Klaus Berger it became clear to me (and it was an overwhelming revelation) that in the texts of the New Testament authors there are a great number of ancient topics, genres and sometimes even concrete texts that live on in different forms, which have exercised various effects on the text of the Bible. There has not been a conference organized in Hungary on this topic so far with Bible scholars and experts of Hellenism invited at the same time (despite the fact that there have been many Hellenistic works translated from the original language to Hungarian by Hungarian classical scholars, Qumran specialists, Assyriologists, the experts of Rabbinic literature, etc.) This is why we would like to look for the translators and experts of non-Christian Hellenistic texts and invite them to give a lecture at our Conference.
The objective of our Conference is the analysis of the relationship between Christian and non-Christian texts. We are willing to send the above mentioned work (Klaus Berger, Carsten Colpe eds.) to the lecturers in PDF format in German or in English and as soon as it is ready even in Hungarian so as to make it easier to find examples for the comparison of concrete texts.
All lecturers are asked to introduce their chosen topic through the quotation of concrete Hellenistic texts, verses from the Old and the New Testaments and extracts from the Early Christian literature. Please make sure that in the text sent to be printed there is the related bibliography in footnotes.
Lecturers should apply for the conference by providing the title of their lecture via email or by typing it in the Google sheet that can be found on the homepage of the Szeged International Biblical Conference. The deadline for application is 1st May, 2018.
Please also make sure that by 15th June, 2018 you will have sent the abstract of your lecture in Hungarian or in a foreign language. The abstract should contain the title of the lecture (in two languages) and the source texts as well as the most important theses of your lecture.
Apart from those of special guests, lectures should not exceed 20 minutes, each of which is followed by a brief and mainly professional debate (a maximum of 10 minutes). On every day of the Conference everyone can join in the debates organized in smaller groups and presided by the lecturers in the workshop section.
The languages of the conference are Hungarian, German and English. We plan to publish the lectures given there about one year after the conference in English or in German. The extension of the written study should be between 25.000 and 30.000 characters with spaces included. The Hungarian texts of the lectures will be uploaded to the homepage of the Conference. http://www.sznbk1988.hu/hu
The deadline for sending us the final version of the lecture is 26th November, 2018.
Those who will be lecturers at our Conference for the first time should also send us their brief scholarly CVs (or if it can be found on the internet, please send us the link – it should not exceed 5.000 characters with spaces) mentioning their three most important publications. We would kindly ask you all to provide us with your scholarly title and your current workplace.
Please, make sure that the Hebrew. Greek, Syrian etc. words are transcribed in Latin according to scholarly transcription. The publication of texts arriving after the 26th of November, 2018 may be doubtful. In case your text extends the above mentioned length, it should be negotiated and permitted by the editor.
We offer free board and lodging to our lecturers for the time of the conference as well as participation in the cultural programmes free of charge. Persons accompanying our lecturers are not automatically catered for free of charge. The Conference is open to all; university students may register with a discount.
Please, inform us as soon as possible and before 1st May, 2018 if you have any special requirement concerning meals. Please, make sure that you send us the exact date and time of your arrival and your departure before 1st June, 2018. This will help us a lot in organizing the event.
Szeged, 4th November, 2017
Dr. György Benyik parish-priest
Director for SZNBK
(Szeged International Biblical Conference)
Interpretation of the Letter to the Romans in Orthodox Theology, during the Renaissance,
during the Reformation period and in today’s Biblical Studies
The date of the conference is from 28th to 30th August, 2017
Venue: exhibition and conference centre, crypt of the Votive Church (‘Dóm’) of Szeged.
Deadline for registration: 1th May 2017.
Patrons of the Conference:
Dr. György Jakubinyi, archbishop of Alba Iulia, Dr. Diocesan László Kiss-Rigó, Prof. Dr. Joachim Gnilka, Prof. Dr. Rector Szabolcs Szuromi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest), Prof. Dr. Levente Balázs Martos, member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. The Biblical Conference in 2017 is organized by Szeged International Biblical Conference Foundation.
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