The sword motif in Matthew 10:34
| dc.contributor.upauthor | Sim, David C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-07T11:45:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-07T11:45:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
| dc.description | Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff Derivation: Abbyy Fine Reader v.9 work with PNG-format (black and white); Photoshop CS3; Adobe Acrobat v.9 Web display format PDF | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In Matthew 10:34 Jesus utters a very difficult saying. He claims that he has not come to bring peace, but a sword. The form of this saying does not trace back to the historical Jesus; it is the product of Matthew's redaction of a Q passage which is found in a more original form in Luke 12:51. What did the evangelist mean when he wrote that Jesus brought a sword? In the Hebrew scriptures the sword was a common symbol for the judgement and punishment of God, and in later times it represented a number of themes associated with the eschaton. It is argued in this study that Matthew, who was fully immersed in the apocalyptic-eschatological traditions of his day, probably used the sword motif in Matthew 10:34 to symbolise a number of important eschatological events. | en |
| dc.description.uri | http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1001341 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sim, DC 2000, 'The sword motif in Matthew 10:34', HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 84-104. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0259-9422 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/15500 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria | en_US |
| dc.rights | Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria | en |
| dc.subject | Matthew 10:34 | en |
| dc.subject | Sword motif | en |
| dc.subject | Apocalyptic-eschatological traditions | en |
| dc.subject | Historical Jesus | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Bible -- N.T. -- Matthew X, 34 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Jesus Christ -- Words | en |
| dc.title | The sword motif in Matthew 10:34 | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |