"The Jenny and the Colt" in Matthew's Messianic Entry, Part 2: Matthew 21:7 as a Reading of Mark 11:7 in Light of Zechariah 9:9
Matthew’s description of Jesus taking his mount in 21:7 as “and he sat on top of them” has been a crux interpretum for centuries. Some take it literally even though it is impossible for a human to sit on two donkeys at once. Others try to avoid the problem by referring the plural pronoun “them” to t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
[2019]
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2019, Volume: 81, Issue: 2, Pages: 235-251 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Matthäusevangelium 21,7
/ Eselin
/ Young animals
/ Ass
/ Bible. Markusevangelium 11,7
/ Bible. Sacharja 9,9
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
MESSIANIC figures
B Jews B Messianism B Triumphal Entry B Bible B Messianic Psalms B anaphoric ambiguity B Matthew 21:7 B synecdoche |
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| Summary: | Matthew’s description of Jesus taking his mount in 21:7 as “and he sat on top of them” has been a crux interpretum for centuries. Some take it literally even though it is impossible for a human to sit on two donkeys at once. Others try to avoid the problem by referring the plural pronoun “them” to the coats the disciples placed on the donkeys instead. I contend that both readings are unsatisfactory, and I bring new evidence and arguments, including Matthew’s plenary reading of Zech 9:9 set forth in part 1 of the study (see CBQ 81 [2019] 62-84), to argue that the plural pronoun functions for Matthew as a whole-for-part synecdoche, where the jenny and the colt constitute a conceptual whole such that when Jesus sits on top of “them,” he takes his mount on the part that fulfills the Hebrew prophecy. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2019.0105 |