Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Novum Testamentum
Angaben zur Quelle:
62,3 (2020) 229-256
Keywords:
Jesus
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New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Scapegoat Comparative studies
Abstract:
Behind the cruel mockery of Pilate’s auxiliary troops (Matt 27:27–31), Matthew portrays the royal inauguration of the true cosmic lord. But what has often been missed is that this inauguration also entails Jesus’s cultic elimination as the victim in a performance reminiscent of ancient curse-transmission rituals. Matthew transforms and assimilates the scene to the most famous elimination rite in his Jewish context, the Yom Kippur scapegoat ritual. Jesus becomes a king who himself bears and carries away the moral impurities of the denizens of his own kingdom as the typological fulfillment of the scapegoat of Leviticus 16.
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