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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   INCORRUPTIBILITY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS.

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  Abstract:  Incorruptibility in the Old Testament. An Anthropological Analysis. In the biblical anthropology of the Old Testament the concept of incorruptibility plays an important role in the establishment of a relationship between man’s destiny and his need for redemption, between his aspiration towards God, towards eternity and the hope for a future life where the divine justice rewards man’s deeds. The term of incorruptibility does not explicitly occur in the canonic texts of the Old Testament, still the idea of incorruptibility is also found in the Psalms. This term entered in the biblical literature through the sapiential texts and under the influence of the Greek thinking during the inter-testamentary period by means of the deuterocanonical books. Aphtharsia is a frequently used notion in these biblical texts designating God and man alike. This enables the shaping of a biblical anthropological vision which considers that the eternal destiny of man has a solid ground in the relation between its nature as a being created in God’s image and likeness and God’s way of being.

Keywords: incorruptibility, anthropology, Old Testament 		 
         
     
         
         
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