Rethinking Luke 10: The Parable of the Good Samaritan Israelite
Scholars most often interpret the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), one of the best-known passages in the New Testament, in the context of intergroup hostility between Jews and Samaritans. Drawing on recent work on Samaritans in Jewish studies and Samaritan studies, I argue that there 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: 3, Pages: 543-566 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luke
/ Luke
/ Samaria
/ Israel
/ Ethnicity
/ Identity
/ Conflict
/ Judea
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
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| Summary: | Scholars most often interpret the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), one of the best-known passages in the New Testament, in the context of intergroup hostility between Jews and Samaritans. Drawing on recent work on Samaritans in Jewish studies and Samaritan studies, I argue that there is little reason to continue framing the parable in terms of polarized Samaritan ethnic or religious alterity. Ancient texts contemporaneous with Luke-Acts often include Samaritans within Israel without marginalization or classification as absolute non-Jewish “Others.” The emphasis on absolute difference emerges, rather, from a scholarly habit of both racialized and polemicized readings of the text. In contrast, I suggest an alternative reading: the Samaritan is better read, along with priests and Levites, as a limit concept to regulate the proper behavior of those included within a programmatic restored “Israel.” |
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| ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jbl.2020.0028 DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1393.2020.6 |