Straipsnyje retorinės analizės metodu išanalizuota pirmoji Petro kalba (Apd 1, 16–22). Analizės tikslas – išspręsti nuo seno biblistus dominančias teksto struktūros problemas, nes tai hermeneutinis raktas į teksto interpretaciją. Dėl to visas dėmesys sutelkiamas į vidinę teksto organizaciją ir jo santykį su kontekstu. Nors buvo analizuotas tekstas originalo kalba, bet skaitytojų patogumui straipsnyje pateikiama šio straipsnio autoriaus atlikto originalų tekstą atspindinčio vertimo į lietuvių kalbą analizė. Semitų autoriai, net ir rašydami graikų kalba, liko ištikimi semitų kompozicijos modeliams, todėl retorinė analizė yra tinkamiausias metodas, padedantis suprasti autoriaus retorinę strategiją ir minties plėtojimo dinamiką.

The end of the Gospel of Mark is one of the most complicated problems in the New Testament studies. The manuscripts show the five types of endings, but actually most scholars agree that original Mark ends with 16:8 and this is the end intended by the author. If the scholars are right about the text issue, we are facing a difficult exegetical and hermeneutical issue: How are we to understand the way the author of the Gospel of Mark chose to conclude this influential account? In the last three scenes (15:40–41; 15:42–47; 16:1–8) the specific group of named women appear. Mark avoids naming the women in the rest of the Gospel: e.g., 1:30–31; 5:25–34; 5:21– 24. 35–43; 6:3; 7:24–30; 14:3–9. In the Roman-era setting of the first readers, there was a widespread view that it was more respectful to refer to women without mentioning their names, particularly in the public sphere. Instead, typically, one identified a woman respectfully by reference to her father, husband, or brother. So, Markan general pattern of unnamed women characters would not have seemed strange or particularly misogynist to readers familiar with the dominant cultural mores of the time. But this also means that the unprecedented appearance of three named women in 15:40 would have caught the attention of ancient readers, and would have suggested to them that these women were brought into the view for some special role. So, the group of named women is the literal clue to consider 15:40–16:8 autonomous literal units, but the traditional exegetical methodology cannot provide the tools to verify this hypothesis. In fact, only appearance of the new exegetical methodology of synchronical nature made possible to provide new arguments to prove or to deny the hypothesis of ending with 16:8.[...].

This paper presents the first Lithuanian ontology in the WordNet family that is LitWordNet. The resource that is visualized in RDF/OWL standard is very important for developing and applying language and semantic technologies. Traditional lexical databases are limited to morphological-syntactic properties of words. LitWordNet connects words into the lexical-semantic network. The creation of such a language resource for the Lithuanian language marks a further step towards a breakthrough in the research and development of Lithuanian language technology. The paper describes the creation, context, structure, enlargement, and links to related resources of LitWordNet. The paper ends with an assessment of the current stage of LitWordNet development and presents guidelines for its further development.