Kuo-Wei PENG

This article explores the different ways that the theme of ”peace” is presented in the Gospels and their relevance to today's world. The discussion starts with the use of the concept of ”Prince of Peace” in the Synoptic Gospels and it introduces four different facets of the theme of ”peace” revealed in the Gospels: (1) peace as a state of well-being, (2) peace as a state of concord, (3) the breaking of peace caused by the Prince of Peace, and (4) peace as a different kind of state of well-being. The article is concluded with the relevance of these four facets of ”peace” in the Gospels to today's socio-religious situations, which is the concern of this article.

... Brendan Byrne (1996) expresses that 'it is not easy, however, to discern a formal principle of organization';17 and Thomas R. Schreiner (1998) also says that The Pauline parenesis, then, in this section [ie, chaps 12-13] is rather loosely structured'.18 In my view, however, these ...

Different approaches to the structure of 1 Timothy The opinion on the structure of Paul’s first letter to Timothy is very much diversified.1 One widely-used approach is to see two major divisions in the body of the letter, 1.3–3.16 and 4.1–6.21, as reflected in the “Outline of Content” of this letter supplied by the Good News Bible (GNB). this approach is probably based on the observations that there is hymn-like material placed at the middle of the letter (3.14-16) and that the section before the hymn-like material (1.3–3.13) generally deals with issues related to the governance of the church, while the issues dealt with in the section after it are more specific in nature. Hence, in “A Quick Look at this Letter” that the contemporary english Version (ceV) supplies for this letter, we have the outline of contents as follows: Greetings (1.1-2) instructions for church Life (1.3–3.13) the Mystery of Our Religion (3.14–4.5) Paul’s Advice to timothy (4.6–6.21)

This essay discusses three broad issues faced by today’s Chinese Bible translations: the continuation and discontinuation of the legacy of the authoritative text, the issue of syntactic differences between Chinese and languages of the source texts, and the issue of differences between the Chinese culture and those behind the source texts. To tackle these issues, the essay highlights the importance in the definition of the Skopos (purpose) of any given Bible translation project, the importance of consistency in the use of translation techniques, and the importance of coherency of the materials used in translational action.