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- Title: Mistaken Identities But Model Faith: Rereading the Centurion, The Chap, And the Christ in Matthew 8:5-13.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 274 KB
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In the history of modern Matthean scholarship, interpretations of Matt 8:5-13 have generally been straightforward. The Roman centurion demonstrates his "great faith" with his "impressive" analogy of Jesus' identity and authority; as a result, the centurion receives from Jesus a healing for his beloved "servant." The significance of this episode has to do with, among other things, another demonstration of Jesus' authority (7:28-29), as well as another foreshadowing of either the incorporation of the Gentiles or the replacement of the Jews by Gentiles in God's kin-dom (8:11-12). The dominance of this interpretation can be seen in its implementation on the part of critics otherwise separated by various kinds of "divides," such as race/ethnicity, gender, ideology, theology, and/or methodology. (1) In this article, we contend that the dominant interpretation of Matt 8:5-13 is built on two mistakes or mistaken identities. (2) The first mistake has to do with the identity of the person on whose behalf the centurion approaches Jesus. The second has to do with the centurion's understanding (based on his own self- identification) of the identity of Jesus. In the process of clarifying these two mistakes or (mis)understandings, we will consider how our alternative interpretation of this episode would correspond to other aspects of the Gospel of Matthew as well as what it would connote for future Matthean research.
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