Which Moses? Jewish Background of Jesus' Transfiguration

Authors

• Andrei Orlov, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2020

Publisher

Gorgias Press

Source Publication

Revelation and Leadership in the Kingdom of God

Source ISSN

9781463241865

Abstract

An importance of Mosaic traditions for understanding of Jesus’ transiguration has been long noticed by many distinguished students of the New Testament.  While the role of Mosaic motifs found in the Hebrew Bible has been duly acknowledged, often in these studies one can see a glaring neglect for extra-biblical Mosaic developments that might also constituted a conceptual background of Jesus’ metamorphosis on the mountain. The puropse of this paper is to explore early para-biblical traditions in which the son of Amraam was understood not merely as a prophet, but as a divine figure.

Comments

Accepted version. "Which Moses? Jewish Background of Jesus' Transfiguration" in Revelation and Leadership in the Kingdom of God. Ed. Andrei Orlov. Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press 2020: 181-268. Publisher link. Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Orlov, Andrei, "Which Moses? Jewish Background of Jesus' Transfiguration" (2020). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 806.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/806