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Lex Talionis in Early Judaism and the Exhortation of Jesus in Matthew 5.38-42 (Hardcover)
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Lex Talionis in Early Judaism and the Exhortation of Jesus in Matthew 5.38-42 (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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In Matthew 5:38-42, Jesus overrides the Old Testament teaching of
'an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth' - the Lex Talionis law -
and commands his disciples to turn the other cheek. James Davis
asks how Jesus' teaching in this instance relates to the Old
Testament talionic commands, how it relates to New Testament era
Judaism and what Jesus required from his disciples and the church.
Based on the Old Testament texts such as Leviticus 24, Exodus 22
and Deuteronomy 19, a strong case can be made that the Lex Talionis
law was understood to have a literal application there are several
texts that text of Leviticus 24 provides the strongest case that a
literal and judicial application. However, by the second century AD
and later, Jewish rabbinic leadership was essentially unified that
the OT did not require a literal talion, but that financial
penalties could be substituted in court matters. Yet there is
evidence from Philo, Rabbi Eliezer and Josephus that in the first
century AD the application of literal talion in judicial matters
was a major and viable Jewish viewpoint at the time of Jesus. Jesus
instruction represents a different perspective from the OT lex
talionis texts and also, possibly, from the Judaism of his time.
Jesus commands the general principle of not retaliation against the
evil person and intended this teaching to be concretely applied, as
borne out in his own life. JSNTS
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