RT Article
T1 “What God Has Joined Together, Let No Man Pull Asunder”?: The Prohibition of Divorce in Mark’s Gospel in the Context of the Controversy between Jesus and the Pharisees
JF Novum Testamentum
VO 66
IS 1
SP 1
OP 17
A1 Forderer, Tanja
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1876724420
AB In Mark 10:1–12, Jesus and the Pharisees discuss whether divorce is permissible. The Pharisees’ question and Jesus’s answer seem artificial against the background of ancient discourses on divorce. Particularly Jesus’s answer in Mark 10:9, which forbids divorce without exception, still gives rise to discussion today. It appears uncompromising and unyielding compared to other NT texts dealing with divorce (Matt 19:1–12; 1 Cor 7:10–16). I show that the prohibition of divorce in Mark 10:9 is the result of a conflict of authority between Jesus and the Pharisees that develops in the Streitgespräche in Mark’s Gospel up to Mark 10:1–12.
K1 Mark 10:1–12
K1 Pharisees
K1 Discourse
K1 Torah
K1 Divorce
K1 Marriage
DO 10.1163/15685365-bja10059