"Fire from Hell", or "You are the Salt of the Earth". On the Interpretation of Matthew 5:13

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dc.contributor.authorShapira, Dan
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T11:41:24Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T11:41:24Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis essay is an attempt to explore different contexts of the phrase “you are the salt of the earth” found in Matt 5:13, one of the most confusing expressions used in the whole of the New Testament. The author deals with its original meaning, exposing in the process the earliest layers of transmission of Jesus’ sayings. Versed in the Hebrew scriptures, Jesus combined the meanings of MLḤ in Exod 30:35 (incense salted is potent/good/pure/holy) with that in Isa 51:6 and Jer 38:11–12 (something MLḤ might vanish away/wax old/become rotten) and put it in a new context. Jesus’ pun – loaded with multiple layers of meanings and shades of meanings – was lost in translation as simply “salt”.
dc.identifier.citation„Verbum Vitae”, 2024, T. 42, Nr 2, s. 493-502
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/vv.16712
dc.identifier.issn1644-8561
dc.identifier.issn2451-280X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7600
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMatthew 5:13
dc.subjectGehenna
dc.subjectfire of Hell
dc.subjectBabylonian Talmud
dc.subjectJudeo-Aramaic and Palestinian Arabic
dc.subjectDead Sea
dc.subjectSalt Sea
dc.subjectTrito-Isaiah
dc.subjectSermon on the mountain
dc.title"Fire from Hell", or "You are the Salt of the Earth". On the Interpretation of Matthew 5:13
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/other
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