Matt 17
This article points to a strand in the reception history of the Transfiguration account that is generally neglected in biblical and patristic scholarship. According to Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian, ps.-Ephrem Syrus, Anastasius the Sinaite, John of Damascus, and the Byzantine hymnographic tradition,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2010, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-30 |
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| Summary: | This article points to a strand in the reception history of the Transfiguration account that is generally neglected in biblical and patristic scholarship. According to Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian, ps.-Ephrem Syrus, Anastasius the Sinaite, John of Damascus, and the Byzantine hymnographic tradition, Matthew's account is not only a vision that the disciples have of Christ, but also a vision granted to Moses and Elijah, witnessed by the disciples. Relating Matthew's account of a vision on Tabor with the biblical vision reports of Moses and Elijah at Sinai was crucially important for early Christians : (a) it underlay their appropriation of the Scriptures of Israel as "Old Testament", by using exegetical procedures that find their closest analogon in the "rewritten Bible" characteristic of certain strands of Second Temple Judaism; (b) it lent itself to polemical use against dualism and monarchianism; (c) it was eventually absorbed into Byzantine festal hymnography, thereby gaining wide acceptance in Byzantine theology. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83373 |