Copper Coins, Catchwords, and Contextual Cues: The Climactic Placement of the Widow’s Mites (Mark 12:41–44)

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Jeremy D. Otten
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The story of the widow in the temple with her two small copper coins (Mark 12:41-44) is a familiar one, but recent scholarship has yielded a surprisingly divergent array of interpretative options. In particular, in noting the catchword χήρα (vv. 40,42,43) that links this episode to Jesus’s diatribe against the scribes in the preceding pericope (vv. 38-40), recent scholarship has argued, against the traditionally positive interpretation of this narrative, that this context requires a negative or tragic interpretation. The present study argues that catchwords and other contextual clues link the widow narrative not just with the preceding pericope, but with the whole series of five disputations in the temple (vv. 13-40). With the episode functioning in this way as an epilogue to the whole section, the widow may be seen as both a model of discipleship as well as a tragic figure whose poverty illustrates the failure of the religious leadership. Because catchwords are frequently noted but rarely defined, criteria must first be proposed for their identification and verification. These are then applied to the passage in question to demonstrate the lexical and semantic links between it and the preceding passages. Seen in this context, the widow narrative emerges in both greater clarity and greater complexity, illustrating piety and true discipleship on the one hand, and the tragic failure of the temple cult and its leaders on the other.
铜钱、流行语和上下文提示:寡妇的Mites的Climatic Placement(马可福音12:41-44)
寺庙里的寡妇带着她的两枚小铜钱(马可福音12:41-44)的故事是一个熟悉的故事,但最近的学术研究产生了一系列令人惊讶的不同解释。特别是,在注意到将这一事件与耶稣在前一节经文(第38-40节)中对抄写员的谩骂联系在一起的流行语χρα(第40、42、43节)时,最近的学术界反对对这一叙事的传统正面解释,认为这种背景需要负面或悲剧的解释。本研究认为,流行语和其他上下文线索不仅将寡妇的叙述与前面的佩里科佩联系起来,而且与神庙中的五场争论的整个系列联系起来(第13-40节)。这一集以这种方式作为整个章节的尾声,寡妇既可以被视为门徒的典范,也可以被视是一个悲剧人物,她的贫穷说明了宗教领导层的失败。由于流行语经常被注意到,但很少被定义,因此必须首先提出识别和验证它们的标准。然后将这些应用于所讨论的段落,以展示它与前面段落之间的词汇和语义联系。在这种背景下,寡妇的叙述既更加清晰,也更加复杂,一方面说明了虔诚和真正的门徒精神,另一方面也说明了寺庙邪教及其领导人的悲惨失败。
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期刊介绍: The Tyndale Bulletin is a bi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal for biblical scholarship and related disciplines.
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