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THE FIRST TESTING OF JESUS: A REREADING OF MARK 1.12–13

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

JAN WILLEM VAN HENTEN
JAN WILLEM VAN HENTEN
Affiliation:
Oude Turfmarkt 147, NL-1012GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Readings of Mark 1.12–13 which focus on Jesus as the second Adam or Israel's antitype are problematic. Mark 1.13's semantic field links up with passages in the Jewish Bible referring to episodes of Israel's period in the wilderness after the exodus. In Mark 1.13 the testing motif seems not to be applied to the people, but to Jesus, who may be understood as the leader of the people. Similar adaptations of the testing motif focusing upon the people's leader can be observed already in passages of the Hebrew Bible and post-biblical Jewish literature.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 349 - 366
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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