Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Novum Testamentum
Angaben zur Quelle:
63,1 (2021) 22-43
Keywords:
Jesus Person and offices
;
Jesus Baptism
;
Marcion,
;
New Testament. Criticism, Textual
;
New Testament. Relation to the Bible
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism Early church, ca. 30-600
;
History
Abstract:
One of the most intriguing textual variants in the New Testament occurs at Luke 3:22, the scene depicting the heavenly voice at Jesus’s baptism. This particular variant has broad consequences for how scholars understand the place of Luke’s Gospel within the Christological controversies that dominated the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Considering external, intrinsic, and transcriptional evidence, this article argues that perceived fears about Marcionism in proto-orthodox circles precipitated the textual corruption at Luke 3:22, prompting a theological redactor to introduce a reading that compounds Christological notions of messiah, prophet, and king in an attempt to strengthen Jesus’s links to Jewish history.
DOI:
10.1163/15685365-12341684
URL:
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