Throw the Blasphemer off a Cliff: Luke 4.16–30 in Light of theLife of Aesop
Autor: | Thomas E. Phillips, Margaret Froelich |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Zdroj: | New Testament Studies. 65:21-32 |
ISSN: | 1469-8145 0028-6885 |
Popis: | In Jesus’ sermon at Nazareth in Luke (4.16–30), his reminder that Elijah had aided non-Jews (vv. 26–7) is met with an unusual death sentence – to throw Jesus from a cliff. This has been conceptually and geographically vexing for scholars. This paper reads the passage beside theLife of Aesop, in which the Delphians condemn the fabulist to the same fate for blasphemy (130–42). Aesop's offence, like Jesus’, is to malign the special status of the Delphians before their god. The Lukan Evangelist's use of the same manner of death for the same type of speech act indicates that the crowd at Nazareth has condemned Jesus for blasphemy. |
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