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- Title: Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840, Fragment of a Lost Gospel, Witness of an Early Christian Controversy over Purity.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 253 KB
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I. Introduction In his Unbekannte Jesusworte Joachim Jeremias writes about Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840: "Diese Perle evangelischer Erzahlerkunst hat bis heute nicht die Beachtung gefunden, die sie verdient" ("Up until now, this pearl of Gospel narrative has not received the appreciation it deserves"). (1) Fifty years later I still concur with Jeremias's judgment. Despite regular mention, this fragment remains relatively unknown. Yet there remains much unnoticed significance to this document: the intensity of the dialogue between Jesus and the priest, the relevance of the purity controversy, and the literary quality of the whole passage. Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840 would be deemed even more significant if it were properly interpreted. The folio is conventionally interpreted in the framework of first-century C.E. Judaism and is regarded as valuable in the quest for the historical Jesus. In my opinion, although Fragment Oxyrhynchus 840 may well speak about Jesus and his criticism of a Jewish priest, it actually fits better into ancient Christian controversies about the validity of water baptism. As we know, any material referring to Jesus' life is at the same time a window into the author's Christian community. Our fragment--this will be my hypothesis--reflects a Christian setting in the second or the third century.
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