Jesus against the Laws of the Pharisees: The Legal Woe Sayings and Second Temple Intersectarian Discourse
This article offers a new approach for reconstructing the original form and meaning of Jesus's legal woe sayings in Matt 23:16-26 (and the parallel in Luke 11:39-44) as part of a broader Jewish intersectarian discourse. A close analysis of this unit alongside an early rabbinic source embedded i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
[2020]
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 139, Issue: 4, Pages: 769-788 |
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Jesus Christus
/ Pharisees
/ Bible. Matthäusevangelium 23,16-26
/ Bible. Lukasevangelium 11,39-44
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | This article offers a new approach for reconstructing the original form and meaning of Jesus's legal woe sayings in Matt 23:16-26 (and the parallel in Luke 11:39-44) as part of a broader Jewish intersectarian discourse. A close analysis of this unit alongside an early rabbinic source embedded in Mishnah tractate Yadayim 4:5-8 reveals that Jesus's condemnation of the Pharisees was not unique. His arguments concerning oaths, tithes, and ritual purity belong to a pre-Matthean stratum, and they match a familiar rhetorical pattern condemning the Pharisees' lenient and compromising approach. According to this pre-Matthean tradition, Jesus drew his argument and depiction of the Pharisees from the current intersectarian debate concerning the essential principles of torah observance. Jesus is portrayed as exploiting current anti-Pharisaic accusations, familiar also from Qumran literature and directed originally against the Pharisees' distorted conceptions of purity and holiness, as he attempts to uncover their moral faults. |
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| ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jbl.2020.0044 DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1394.2020.8 |