“Profane Like Esau”: Sexual Immorality, Bitterness, and Community Abandonment in Hebrews 12:14–17
The author of Hebrews accuses Esau of sexual immorality in Heb 12:16. This essay argues Esau’s sexual immorality is his marriage to foreign women, which sowed seeds of discord in the family and led ultimately to his unredeemable exclusion from the community. Esau’s exogamous marriage, as such, is no...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Brill
2024
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Novum Testamentum
Год: 2024, Том: 66, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 112-125 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Esau, Библейский персонаж (мотив)
/ Bibel. Hebräerbrief 12,16
/ Bibel. Numeri 13-14
/ Экзогамия
/ Вероотступничество
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| Индексация IxTheo: | HB Ветхий Завет HC Новый Завет ZA Общественные науки |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Hebrews
B Esau B warning passages B sexual immorality B Apostasy B Conversion |
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| Итог: | The author of Hebrews accuses Esau of sexual immorality in Heb 12:16. This essay argues Esau’s sexual immorality is his marriage to foreign women, which sowed seeds of discord in the family and led ultimately to his unredeemable exclusion from the community. Esau’s exogamous marriage, as such, is not the concern in Hebrews, but rather how his mixed marriage introduced bitterness into the family and led ultimately to him abandoning the group. Like the wilderness generation in Num 13–14, Esau lost his inheritance by failing to persevere with the community. Tested against recent studies of conversion and deconversion, we see how Esau becomes a paradigmatic community-abandoning apostate and a warning against similar abandonment. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10055 |