The Lukan Passion and the Praiseworthy Death. By Peter J. Scaer
Faced with the shameful stigma of the cross, Scaer argues, Luke drew on deeply held Greco-Roman rhetorical conventions to present Jesus’ death instead as noble and praiseworthy. Many of Luke's redactional changes, he maintains, have been inspired by what he calls the ‘noble death tradition’. Th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 444-445 |
| Review of: | The Lukan passion and the praiseworthy death (Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005) (Bond, Helen K.)
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| Summary: | Faced with the shameful stigma of the cross, Scaer argues, Luke drew on deeply held Greco-Roman rhetorical conventions to present Jesus’ death instead as noble and praiseworthy. Many of Luke's redactional changes, he maintains, have been inspired by what he calls the ‘noble death tradition’. These include Jesus’ courage, piety, willingness to die, control of his surroundings, continual blessings, and his honourable burial. The prime exemplar of the noble death, as far as the ancients were concerned, was Socrates; Scaer argues convincingly that Luke not only knew the story of the Athenian sage, but that he consciously drew on pertinent features in his presentation of Jesus as a philosopher of great wisdom, and as a righteous, innocent man unjustly put to death. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm075 |