Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
New Testament Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
66,3 (2019) 454-470
Keywords:
Ascension of Isaiah Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Post-biblical literature Relation to the New Testament
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Christianity and other religions Judaism Early church, ca. 30-600
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History
Abstract:
This article explores the literary relationship between the Matthean tradition and the Ascension of Isaiah, a second-century pseudepigraphon detailing Isaiah's visions of the ‘Beloved’ and his polemical (and fatal) engagement with the ‘false prophet’ Belkira. While the lexical affiliation between these texts has been a point of interest, the discussion has oscillated between types of sources utilised, whether gospel material mutually shared with Matthew or Matthew itself. Though this paper details lexical contact, it pushes beyond philological similarity and posits narrative imitations as well as shared polemical strategies. The result is that Isaiah is more readily seen as a figure fashioned after the Matthean Jesus, and the ‘martyred prophet’ motif that ripples throughout the Gospel of Matthew as appropriated and narrativised by the Ascension of Isaiah for a second-century conflict over prophetic practices.
DOI:
10.1017/S002868851900050X
URL:
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