Throw the Blasphemer off a Cliff: Luke 4.16–30 in Light of theLife of Aesop

Autor:	Thomas E. Phillips, Margaret Froelich
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	060303 religions & theology History geography geography.geographical_feature_category media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Manner of death Speech act Cliff Theology Blasphemy Sermon Sentence media_common
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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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