Reflecting Ancient Ethics: Reconsidering the Mirror Metaphor in 1 Cor 13:12
Scholars usually interpret 1 Cor 13:12 as depicting an eschatological encounter with God because of the repetition of ἄρτι … τότε and the verbal shift from present to future. Additionally, scholars propose that the implied object of βλέπομεν is God, and humanity will see God πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον....
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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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2022
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Novum Testamentum
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 296-317 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Corinthians 1. 13,8-13
/ Bible. Corinthians 1. 13,12
/ Mirror
/ Metaphor
/ Literature
/ Early Judaism
/ Pseudepigraphy
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Greco-Roman literature
B Ethics B 1 Corinthians B Pauline literature B Mirror B Jewish pseudepigrapha |
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| Summary: | Scholars usually interpret 1 Cor 13:12 as depicting an eschatological encounter with God because of the repetition of ἄρτι … τότε and the verbal shift from present to future. Additionally, scholars propose that the implied object of βλέπομεν is God, and humanity will see God πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον. However, New Testament scholarship has struggled to explain the mirror metaphor, δι’ ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι. Scholars argue it is depicting: indirect theophany, mystery religion initiation, or philosophical agnosticism. Conversely, this article argues that 1 Cor 13:12 and the mirror metaphor is best understood within the socially charged discourse of virtue, ethics, and imitation. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10022 |