Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Novum Testamentum
Angaben zur Quelle:
36,3 (1994) 259-270
Keywords:
Paul,
;
New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Prophets New Testament teaching
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
The charge that the Jews were guilty of killing their own prophets has appeared in Christian writings from the New Testament (especially Matthew and Luke) to modern times. The passage in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians (2:13-16) has almost always been understood as a diatribe against the Jews who killed both Jesus and their prophets. Shows that the passage has been mistranslated throughout the centuries, and should read "the Jews who killed the Lord - Jesus, and his prophets - and drove us out...". States that most of the Church Fathers, like later commentators, were so accustomed to the accusation that the Jews had killed their prophets that they uncritically read Paul's ambiguous statement with an antisemitic understanding. Paul thought that some Jews had killed Jesus, and that some Jews had killed some of Jesus' prophets. In that case, the ominous theme of the killing of the prophets cannot be found in Paul.
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