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- Title: Matthew 27:52-53 As Apocalyptic Apostrophe: Temporal-Spatial Collapse in the Gospel of Matthew.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 255 KB
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Matthew 27:52-53 exhibits the temporal-spatial collapse that is characteristic of most apocalyptic; however, common assumptions in reading strategy have long obscured this aspect of the text. Once we recognize the significance of literary signals such as the "holy city" and the historicized future we find reason to reassess the passage. The stage is then set to delineate the apocalyptic character of these verses and to fashion a new hermeneutic. Several mostly new points will be argued in this study of Matt 27:52-53, namely, that the passage is fundamentally a fragment of pre-Matthean Christian apocalyptic; that the raising of the saints in this passage refers not to an event of Matthew's past but to the general resurrection at the end of time; that both the opening of the tombs and the raising of the saints occur not before but after the resurrection of Jesus Christ; that the holy city is not the historic city of Jerusalem but the new Jerusalem of Rev 21:2; that the saints who are raised are not the Jewish saints of antiquity but the Christian martyrs of Rev 20:4, 6; that the "many" to whom the martyrs appear in the holy city are not residents of first-century Jerusalem but an eschatological community of Jews analogous to the 144,000 in Rev 7:4, 14:1; and finally that Matt 27:51-54 as a temporal-spatially conflated passage is not an altogether unique phenomenon in Jewish and Christian literature.