“What God Has Joined Together, Let No Man Pull Asunder”?: The Prohibition of Divorce in Mark’s Gospel in the Context of the Controversy between Jesus and the Pharisees
In Mark 10:1–12, Jesus and the Pharisees discuss whether divorce is permissible. The Pharisees’ question and Jesus’s answer seem artificial against the background of ancient discourses on divorce. Particularly Jesus’s answer in Mark 10:9, which forbids divorce without exception, still gives rise to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Novum Testamentum
Year: 2024, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-17 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Divorce
/ Divorce law
/ Bible. Markusevangelium 10,1-12
/ Pharisees
/ Dispute
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Discourse
B Divorce B Torah B Marriage B Mark 10:1–12 B Pharisees |
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| Summary: | In Mark 10:1–12, Jesus and the Pharisees discuss whether divorce is permissible. The Pharisees’ question and Jesus’s answer seem artificial against the background of ancient discourses on divorce. Particularly Jesus’s answer in Mark 10:9, which forbids divorce without exception, still gives rise to discussion today. It appears uncompromising and unyielding compared to other NT texts dealing with divorce (Matt 19:1–12; 1 Cor 7:10–16). I show that the prohibition of divorce in Mark 10:9 is the result of a conflict of authority between Jesus and the Pharisees that develops in the Streitgespräche in Mark’s Gospel up to Mark 10:1–12. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10059 |