Ks. Jan Stawarczyk (1887–1944) jako biblista. Próba ukazania działalności naukowo-dydaktycznej

Abstract

The article shows the attempt of showing the academic and educational achievements of proffesor’s Rev. John Stawarczyk who was an outstanding biblicist and judaist. He was also a worker of Scientific Department of Catholic Theology at University in Warsaw from 1919 to 1944. He was working on the chronology of Ezra and Nehemiah’s books. He dealt with language issues of the area Hebrew and Logistics studies and worked on the influence of accent on the change of vowels in Hebrew. He developed the history and the doctrins of the main religious books of Mandayan, analyzing cosmogonies, soteriology, eschatology, moral science and liturgy of the Mandayan gnosis. The purpose of the article is to bring back the memory of Rev. John Stawarczyk, his achievements and contribution to the development of biblical studies of the interwar period.