Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
New Testament Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
65,3 (2019) 398-411
Keywords:
Abraham
;
New Testament. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
New Testament. Relation to the Bible
;
Messiah New Testament teaching
Abstract:
In Gal 3.16 Paul asserts that Abraham's seed is the messiah. While some have suggested that the rationale for this assertion is Paul's identification of Abraham's seed with David's seed, few have identified evidence for this rationale in the immediate context of Galatians 3, and none have genuinely argued for it. Noting that the reappropriation of scriptural idioms is a common feature of ancient messiah discourse, I demonstrate that Gal 3.19 entails a reappropriation of the wording of Gen 49.10, an oracle often interpreted as Davidic-messianic, and thereby I elucidate the scriptural reasoning undergirding Gal 3.16.
DOI:
10.1017/S0028688519000079
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