Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Revue Biblique
Angaben zur Quelle:
128,2 (2021) 201-235
Keywords:
Jesus Transfiguration
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Jesus Priesthood
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Cosmology, Ancient Comparative studies
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Eschatology Comparative studies
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Messiah Biblical teaching
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Messiah in post-biblical literature
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Post-biblical literature History and criticism
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Christianity and other religions Judaism Early church, ca. 30-600
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History
Abstract:
In Matthew and Mark, Jesus’ dialogue with his disciples immediately after his Transfiguration highlights the return of Elijah as a key to the epiphanic event. The present study contextualizes this exchange within Second Temple cosmology and eschatology and creative traditions of scribal exegesis that generated expectations of a coming eschatological high priest. An identification of John with this Elijah/High-Priest figure, together with certain traditions about Moses’ 'sanctification' in the cloud as well as the glorious high priestly vestments, positions Jesus’ own remarkable transformation upon the mountain in a new and very suggestive priestly light.
DOI:
10.2143/RBI.128.2.3289325
URL:
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