"In the Days of His Flesh, He Offered Up Prayers": Reimagining the Sacrifice(s) of Jesus in the Letter to the Hebrews
The Letter to the Hebrews is generally regarded as the most sacrificial text in the New Testament. This article argues that Hebrews, read within the wider context of sacrificial discourse in the ancient Mediterranean world, not only represents a textual moment in the rhetorical dissociation of the e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
[2021]
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2021, Volume: 140, Issue: 1, Pages: 207-227 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Hebrews
/ Victim (Religion)
/ Victim (Religion, Motiv)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
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| Summary: | The Letter to the Hebrews is generally regarded as the most sacrificial text in the New Testament. This article argues that Hebrews, read within the wider context of sacrificial discourse in the ancient Mediterranean world, not only represents a textual moment in the rhetorical dissociation of the early Jesus movement from the sacrificial cult in Jerusalem but also reflects the rhetorical obfuscation of Jesus's sacrificial self-offering as it was being replaced by an emphasis on the interpretation of Jesus's death as sacrifice, with the result being the inevitable sacrifice of the former for the latter in early Christian discourse. |
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| ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jbl.2021.0003 |