Exodus in Matthew’s Looking Glass
Jesus’s Flight to Egypt (Matt 2:13–18) as a Reflection Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21476970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Stargel (0000-0003-0162-7553, Academic Dean and Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Biblical Language, Nazarene Theological College Thornlands, Queensland Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-186 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Horizons in Biblical Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-9085 • E-ISSN: 1871-2207 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18712207-12341431 |
| OpenAlex | W3195692805 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Matthew’s placement of Hosea 11:1 – “Out of Egypt I called my son” – following the arrival of Jesus in Egypt has been largely misinterpreted by scholars as a “premature quotation.” The Old Testament’s expanded portrayal of a symbolic Egypt, the interpretative framework of the Social Identity Approach, and the recognition of Matthew 2:13–18 as a “reflection story” add the necessary keys for understanding Hosea 11:1’s placement. Old Testament exodus stories not only advance the possibility of a symbolic interpretation of Egypt in the citation, but they favor such an interpretation. The exodus allusions in Matthew’s story endorse this symbolic interpretation of Israel as the Egyptian Other. In the looking glass of the exodus, Matthew’s Flight to Egypt story reveals both the character of the Other and that of the story’s hero
Aesthetics · Art · Biblical studies · Biblical theology · Citation · HERO · Linguistics · Literature · Old Testament · Psychoanalysis · The Symbolic · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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