RT Article
T1 Jesus as Scapegoat in Matthew’s Roman-Abuse Scene (Matt 27:27–31)
JF Novum Testamentum
VO 62
IS 3
SP 229
OP 256
A1 Moscicke, Hans 1985-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1703150554
AB Behind the cruel mockery of Pilate’s auxiliary troops (Matt 27:27-31), Matthew portrays the royal inauguration of the true cosmic lord. But what has often been missed is that this inauguration also entails Jesus’s cultic elimination as the victim in a performance reminiscent of ancient curse-transmission rituals. Matthew transforms and assimilates the scene to the most famous elimination rite in his Jewish context, the Yom Kippur scapegoat ritual. Jesus becomes a king who himself bears and carries away the moral impurities of the denizens of his own kingdom as the typological fulfillment of the scapegoat of Leviticus 16.
K1 Day of Atonement
K1 Gospel of Matthew
K1 Jesus’s Roman abuse
K1 Leviticus 16
K1 Yom Kippur
K1 ancient rituals
K1 Scapegoat
K1 Typology
DO 10.1163/15685365-12341669