The Temptation Stories and their Intention

Pokorný, Petr

doi:10.1017/s0028688500016180

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“…He argues that interpretations were shaped by ‘previous and cognate refractions’ (2009: 73), even if that means negatively reacting against other interpretations of Jesus. The Temptation of Jesus, rather than abstractly rejecting ‘contemporary Jewish concepts of the Messiah’ (Pokorný 1974: 125) by inventing three temptations from whole cloth, recasts images drawn from the very stories about Jesus in Galilee that could be perceived as having some political or fame-seeking intention. The Temptation, in other words, refracts memory about Jesus’ Galilean tenure to shape a particular interpretation of Jesus’ activity as non-political (in the sense of militancy and self-aggrandizement), 27 and in so doing reacts and hence attests to a possible political interpretation of those episodes.…”

Section: The Feeding In ‘Literary Memory’9 and Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crowds, Bread and Fame: John 6.1-15 and History Revisited

Ferda

2019

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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From the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century it was common to regard the unique conclusion to the Johannine account of the Feeding of the Five Thousand (6.15) as one of the most important episodes in Jesus’ public career. This view has all but disappeared from current Jesus research. This article revisits, challenges and ultimately reframes this thesis with the help of some recent developments in historical method in Jesus studies. The argument is this: even if the exact scenario in Jn 6.14-15 is not historical, the episode captures an important political dimension to Jesus’ activities that probably is historical and can illuminate other events in his life as well. Historians were right to highlight Jn 6.14-15, if perhaps for the wrong reasons.

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Section: The Feeding In ‘Literary Memory’9 and Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%