Hope in the face of death
The adoption of the minority reading (2 Cor 5:3) in Nestle-Aland28 is unwarranted because the copyist assumed Paul knew the open tomb tradition and had taken a disappearance of Jesus' dead body literally. To him Paul would have feared to die before the parousia and thus enter a state of a '...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1997
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
Year: 1997, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-86 |
| Further subjects: | B
Book of 2 Cor
B Bible B Hope in the face of death B New Testament |
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| Summary: | The adoption of the minority reading (2 Cor 5:3) in Nestle-Aland28 is unwarranted because the copyist assumed Paul knew the open tomb tradition and had taken a disappearance of Jesus' dead body literally. To him Paul would have feared to die before the parousia and thus enter a state of a 'naked', disembodied soul, Paul rather reckoned with appearing before Christ's judgment seat when mortals might appear 'naked' in shame. He nowhere shows a knowledge of the open tomb tradition. Moreover, the majority reading fits hand in glove with Paul's imagery in 2 Cor 4: 16-5: 1 0 and his soteriology elsewhere. The open tomb story should be read as a midrashic aggadah. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_595 |
