Abstract The God of Israel’s vicarious angel: origin and necessity of a substitutive political function This paper analyzes the origins of the concept of the Angel of the Nation within the Judaic tradition. The main features and functions of the intermediary figure of the divine messe

Abstract The expression «Angels of the nations» does not appear in the Book of Revelation. Nevertheless, on the one hand, the angels operate between God and the nations, and thus all have some kind of relationship with peoples, or at least with individual humans; on the other hand, th

Abstract This paper shows that while the Greek parrhesia is above all concerned with the public and political spheres, the one of the Jews integrates and directs both spheres towards a different perspective, in which the religious dimension is strongest. In this new dimension parrhesi

Abstract The entry explores some aspects of the history of the concept of ‘redemption, focusing on its juridical background. Attention is given to the close relationship between the interpretation of Jesus’ salvific action by early Christian authors, on the one hand, and the pra

Abstract “You will not be released until you have paid the last penny”. Exegesis of Mt: 5, 25-26 and origins of the idea of ​​purgatory Since the publication of J. Le Goff’s highly successful The Birth of Purgatory, in 1981, much research has been done, from various histor

Abstract “Without money you shall be redeemed” (Is 52:3). Redemption in the Old Testament between theological metaphor and hybrid legal language Most Old Testament texts dealing with redemption and ransom use legal language, even when God is the redeemer, although in this

Abstract The mandate of  the redeemer and the duties of the redeemed. The origins of a paradigm of legitimization of economic and political relations (II – V century)  In this paper I present a wide range of patristic texts, which – through theological discussion of the “divine

Abstract Redemptio ab hostibus and redemptio a domino in Roman law This essay presents a synthetic historical account of the Roman juridical institution of the redemptio ab hostibus and the redemptio a domino, which allowed people who had been enslaved in war, or as debtors, to regain

Abstract Roman redemptio and its Christian reinterpretation. A contribution to the history of the concept of “redemption” The paper deals with the concept of redemption developed by a number of Early Christian authors (Origen and Ambrose of Milan in particular). Special at

Abstract Pidion Haben, the redemption of the firstborn. Theological-political interpretations of a Mitzvah The paper deals with the mitzwà issued by Shemot/Exodus 13: 13, which imposes the consecration and the ransom of every, human and animal, first-born. This commandment, called pid