The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke: Leviticus 19:17 in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation. By Matthew S. Goldstone
This is a thorough study of the meaning of Leviticus 19:17 in its own context and in later Jewish and Christian interpretation. Each chapter includes a broader methodological reflection, a thorough analysis of the interpretation, and an informed search for how the social and political context has in...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Jahr: 2020, Band: 71, Heft: 2, Seiten: 816-817 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This is a thorough study of the meaning of Leviticus 19:17 in its own context and in later Jewish and Christian interpretation. Each chapter includes a broader methodological reflection, a thorough analysis of the interpretation, and an informed search for how the social and political context has influenced the specific formulation. A phrase that helpfully sums up the main approach of the text is included in the chapter title.The introduction sets out some of the tensions and ambiguities in the text that will lead to the spectrum of later views. The command to rebuke is emphatic, but is hedged around by requirements not to hate the other in the heart and not to incur guilt. The next two chapters explore how the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospels read this verse in the context of the famous next verse, the command to love neighbour as self. Both traditions take seriously the moral and judicial dimensions of the original. However, the Scrolls commend love and rebuke for insiders and hatred for others, whereas Jesus in Matthew and Luke requires Christians to respond to all with love. Goldstone sees this as a concern to break down the boundaries between insiders and outsiders. In my view this fails to do justice to the intense differentiation in the Gospels between those who follow Jesus and those who reject him, and calls for a more nuanced approach. The third chapter looks at how other texts have read Leviticus 19:17 in the light of the previous verse, and sought to differentiate rebuke from slander or gossip. The context of the key verse thus begins to problematize how to rebuke well. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa085 |