Bartimaeus
Bartimaeus was a blind beggar from Jericho mentioned in the New Testament , whom Jesus Christ healed because of his faith ( Mark 10: 46-52 EU ).
The same incident is reported in the Gospel according to Luke 18 : 35-43 EU , and only one blind man is mentioned; In contrast, in the Gospel according to Matthew 20:30 EU two blind people are mentioned. The name Bartimaeus is only mentioned in the Gospel of Mark .
The name means "son of Timaeus" in Aramaic .
The Bartimaeus story is one of six biblical blind healing stories and one of the most popular children's Bible stories. Some kindergartens and community centers were named after Bartimaeus in the area of the Evangelical Church .
Theological healing of blindness is secondary. Rather, it is about the special faith of Bartimaeus, who addresses Jesus as the “ son of David ” and thus confesses as the Messiah .
literature
- Kees de Kort : Bartimaeus . In: What the Bible Tells Us . No. 3 . Deutsche Bibelstiftung, Stuttgart 1970, OCLC 630777356 (first edition: 1968).
- Emil Maier-Fürstenfeld : Bartimaeus can see again . Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-460-24061-X .
- Peter F. Bock: Then his eyes opened: Bartimaeus. Series of images and sound images ... to Mark 10: 46-52 . av-edition, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-88424-142-7 .
- Chantal Muller van den Berghe: Bartimäus / Pictures by Chantal Muller VanDenBerghe. Text by Bernard Hubler . Ed. Anker, 1998, ISBN 3-460-24192-6 (Original title: Bartimée . Translated by Michel Weyer, or ISBN 3-7675-7766-6 ).
- Innocent Uhuegbu Olekamma: The healing of blind Bartimaeus (Mk 10.46-52) in the Markan context: two ways of asking . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-631-34798-7 (Zugl .: Frankfurt (Main), Philos.-Theol. Hochsch. St. Georgen, Diss., 1999 ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Kollmann: New Testament miracle stories. Biblical-theological approaches and impulses for practice . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019875-3 , p. 82 f.