Proces powstawania treści biblijnych ksiąg i ich zależności między sobą jest obiektem wieloletnich badań i przy pomocy metody egzegezy historycznokrytycznej, która zrodziła się z oświeceniowego historyzmu, pozwala odkrywać zdarzenia, które stanowiły decydujące kryterium dla kształtu czy umiejscowienia danego tekstu w kanonie ksiąg biblijnych. Jednak stosowanie tylko metody historycznej byłoby redukcjonizmem naświetlającym Biblię jedynie w kontekście historycznym poszczególnych ksiąg, rozrywając przy tym jedność Pism. W artykule zawarto dwa przykłady: portret Mojżesza z Pochwały Ojców (por. Syr 45,1-5) oraz menorę z piątej wizji proroka Zachariasza (por. Za 4,1-14), aby w sposób przyczynkowy pokazać, jak tekst biblijny zmieniał się w świetle historii narodu wybranego, ale przede wszystkim też pod wpływem dojrzewania w wierze kolejnych pokoleń natchnionych pisarzy.

“Artistic interpretation” in the Bible on the example of the portrait of Moses in the Praise of the Fathers (Sir 45:1-5) and the vision of the menorah of the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 4:1-14)

The process of creating the content of biblical books and their interdependencies is the subject of many years of research and, using the method of historical and critical exegesis, which was born out of the Enlightenment historicism, it allows us to discover events that were the decisive criterion for the shape or location of a given text in the canon of biblical books. However, to use only the historical method would be a reductionism illuminating the Bible only in the historical context of the individual books, while breaking the unity of the Scriptures. The article includes two examples of a portrait of Moses in the Praise of the Fathers (Sir 45: 1-5) and a menorah from the fifth vision of the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 4: 1-14) to show, in an interim way, how the biblical text has changed in the light of the history of the Chosen People but above all also influenced by the maturing of successive generations of inspired writers in the faith.

The process of creating the content of biblical books and their interdependencies is the subject of many years of research and, using the method of historical and critical exegesis, which was born out of the Enlightenment historicism, it allows us to discover events that were the decisive criterion for the shape or location of a given text in the canon of biblical books. However, to use only the historical method would be a reductionism illuminating the Bible only in the historical context of the individual books, while breaking the unity of the Scriptures. The article includes two examples of a portrait of Moses in the Praise of the Fathers (Sir 45: 1-5) and a menorah from the fifth vision of the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 4: 1-14) to show, in an interim way, how the biblical text has changed in the light of the history of the Chosen People but above all also influenced by the maturing of successive generations of inspired writers in the faith.