Sadducee question

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Sadducee question (also: question of resurrection ) refers to a question that has been handed down in the synoptic gospels of the Christian Bible ( Mk 12.18-27  EU , Matt 22.23-33  EU , Lk 20.27-40  EU ).

Content of the question

The Sadducees , a Jewish group in Jesus' day who rejected the idea of ​​a resurrection , ask Jesus a question in which they try to use a constructed case based on marriage-in -law to reduce the thesis of the resurrection to absurdity: If a woman of the Had been married in turn to all seven brothers in a family, but in the end after their husbands died childless, whose wife would she be after the resurrection?

On the one hand, Jesus traces the question back to a misunderstanding of the Mosaic Law: “ You are wrong because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. If they are raised from the dead, they will neither marry nor allow themselves to be married [...] ”

In addition, Jesus also addresses the underlying concern of the question of the nature of the risen ones. According to him, they will “ be like the angels in heaven ” ( Mk 12.25  EU ). This answer to the Sadducees' question astonished contemporary listeners ( Mt 22.33  EU ).

Interpretations

On the question of the Sadducees, Jesus remarked that they knew neither the scriptures nor the power of God to bring the dead to life.

The Sadducee question aimed to refute the thesis of a resurrection. Jesus, for his part, now provides scriptural evidence for the resurrection with the help of the thorn bush scene . At a time when Abraham , Isaac and Jacob had long since died, God said to Moses “I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” - Jesus interprets this passage in the sense of the resurrection of the dead, because: “God is not a god of the dead but of the living ”.

Schwankl, among others, gives a detailed overview of the proximity of the Sadducee question to the question of the sexuality of the resurrected and the possible interpretations of the Sadducee question. Sexuality can be seen as an inherent aspect of being human and of exclusively individual human communication, which in the resurrection can be continued, perfected or even canceled in the “power of the living God” ( Mk 12.27  EU par.) .

See also

literature

  • Otto Schwankl: The Sadducee question and the resurrection expectation of Jesus. In: Wissenschaft und Weisheit 50, 1987, ISSN  0043-678X , pp. 81-92.
  • Otto Schwankl: The Sadducee Question. (Mk 12, 18-27 parr). An exegetical-theological study on the expectation of the resurrection. (= Bonn biblical contributions 66). Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-610-09102-9 (also: Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 1986).
  • Albert Fuchs: The Sadducee Question Mark 12, 18-27 par Mt 22.2 3-33 par Lk 20, 27-40. In: Studies on the New Testament and its Environment (SNTU) 26, 2001, pp. 83–110.
  • John J. Kilgallen: The Sadducees and Resurrection from the Dead. Luke 20: 27-40. In: Biblica 67, 1986, ISSN  0006-0887 , pp. 478-495.