Suffering and Sacrifice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23569573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Candida R Mo (0000-0002-1189-1190, University of Birmingham, corresponding author), Candida R Moss (Religion, University of Birmingham) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 245-259 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190887452.013.22 |
| OpenAlex | W4353061906 |
| ISBN | 9780190887452 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Each of the Synoptic writers envisions the world as a place in which suffering is powerful, predictable, and meaningful. Each expects that followers of Jesus will experience hardships and that people in general will experience suffering in the apocalypse. While for Luke the death of Jesus adheres to the model of the self-controlled and respectable death of a philosopher, for Mark Jesus’s suffering is uncomfortably close and present: the reader cannot look away from the Gethsemane agony or cry of despair from the cross. For Matthew such moments serve as teaching moments: they offer moments of instruction for the disciples and, by extension, the audience itself.
Aesthetics · Art · Extension (predicate logic) · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sacrifice · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |