On the Jesus's anxiety about the "hour of his death"
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:24 am
Why is Jesus restless about the precise hour of his death?
It seems that the background assumption by the inventor of a such anxiety betrayes a previous concern about the precise time the crucifixion of Jesus in outer space happened. But this explanation would sound too much astrotheological/acharyan.
Usually, as a particular vulgata would like to make us believe, the Jews were obsessed by the precise "hour of the Messiah", not at all by the hour of his death.
Replacing the Jewish anxiety about the arrival of the conqueror Messiah with the Jesus's anxiety about the hour of the his death, the point of the evangelist is point out, again and again, that the Christ reveals himself only in his death.
This is clearly Judaized paulinism. The "crucified Christ" is for outsiders, not for the true insiders. For the latter, the real crucifixion, docet 1 Corinthians 2:6-8, happened in outer space. The hour of the his death didn't count, since, as Couchoud explains, the celestial crucifixion was atemporal.
My strong suspicion is that the anxiety about the precise hour of his death works as anti-Marcionite motive, just as the two thieves, the titulus crucis, etc.
It seems that the background assumption by the inventor of a such anxiety betrayes a previous concern about the precise time the crucifixion of Jesus in outer space happened. But this explanation would sound too much astrotheological/acharyan.
Usually, as a particular vulgata would like to make us believe, the Jews were obsessed by the precise "hour of the Messiah", not at all by the hour of his death.
Replacing the Jewish anxiety about the arrival of the conqueror Messiah with the Jesus's anxiety about the hour of the his death, the point of the evangelist is point out, again and again, that the Christ reveals himself only in his death.
This is clearly Judaized paulinism. The "crucified Christ" is for outsiders, not for the true insiders. For the latter, the real crucifixion, docet 1 Corinthians 2:6-8, happened in outer space. The hour of the his death didn't count, since, as Couchoud explains, the celestial crucifixion was atemporal.
My strong suspicion is that the anxiety about the precise hour of his death works as anti-Marcionite motive, just as the two thieves, the titulus crucis, etc.