Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- The Zealots and Jesus
- The revolution theory from Reimarus to Brandon
- The date and character of Mark
- Some observations on Tendenzkritik
- Argumentum e silentio
- The Poor and the Zealots
- The opposition between Jesus and Judaism
- Judaeo-Christianity and the Jewish establishment, A.D. 33–66
- A.D. 70 in Christian reflection
- The trial of Jesus in the Acta Pilati
- Christ as brigand in ancient anti-Christian polemic
- Jesus as a political agent in a version of the Josippon
- The Feeding of the Multitude
- The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
- Render to Caesar
- The Temple tax
- ‘Not peace but a sword’: Matt. 10:34ff; Luke 12: 51ff
- The decision of the Supreme Court to put Jesus to death (John 11:47–57) in its context: tradition and redaction in the Gospel of John
- The ‘triumphal’ entry
- The two swords (Luke 22: 35–38)
- The titulus
- Romans 13
- Biblical criticism criticised: with reference to the Markan report of Jesus's examination before the Sanhedrin
- The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
- The trial before Pilate
- ‘His witness is true’: A test of the Johannine claim
- Index of Authors
- Index of References
The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- The Zealots and Jesus
- The revolution theory from Reimarus to Brandon
- The date and character of Mark
- Some observations on Tendenzkritik
- Argumentum e silentio
- The Poor and the Zealots
- The opposition between Jesus and Judaism
- Judaeo-Christianity and the Jewish establishment, A.D. 33–66
- A.D. 70 in Christian reflection
- The trial of Jesus in the Acta Pilati
- Christ as brigand in ancient anti-Christian polemic
- Jesus as a political agent in a version of the Josippon
- The Feeding of the Multitude
- The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
- Render to Caesar
- The Temple tax
- ‘Not peace but a sword’: Matt. 10:34ff; Luke 12: 51ff
- The decision of the Supreme Court to put Jesus to death (John 11:47–57) in its context: tradition and redaction in the Gospel of John
- The ‘triumphal’ entry
- The two swords (Luke 22: 35–38)
- The titulus
- Romans 13
- Biblical criticism criticised: with reference to the Markan report of Jesus's examination before the Sanhedrin
- The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
- The trial before Pilate
- ‘His witness is true’: A test of the Johannine claim
- Index of Authors
- Index of References
Summary
The provocative question ἔξεστιν ϰῆνσoν Καíσαϱι δoῦναι(Mark 12: 14: D and some other authorities read for νσoν, epexegetically, πιµϕάλαιoν – we have to do with a poll-tax, not with indirect taxation) introduces what, maybe, was the first instance of the use of a coin, imaginatively, as a ‘visual aid’, in teaching. It added vividness, and a sense of drama, to the tale. Jesus calls for the appropriate coin φέϱετέ μoι δηνάϱιoν ἳνα ἴδω (Mark 12: 15; Matt. 22: 19 varies this – ἐπιδεíξατέ μoι τò νóμισμα τoῦ ϰήνσoυ.) It is immediately forthcoming. No one doubts that it is indeed ‘the money of the tribute’. The δηνάϱιoν is the kind of coin in which the tribute is calculated and in which, by implication, it is to be paid. We may note in passing that perhaps Jesus did not have such a coin about him. This is not stated. But it was perhaps so, for whatever reason. It would have been artistically désirable for the denouement that the coin should have been provided by the Pharisees and Herodians who have posed the original question and no doubt they are the ‘they’ of οἱ δέ ἤνµεγϰαν (Mark 12: 16; Matt. 22: 19 οἱ δὲ πϱoσήνεγϰαν αὐτῷ δηνάϱιoν).
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- Jesus and the Politics of his Day , pp. 241 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984
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