Abstract

PASCHKE, Boris. Scriptura [online]. 2016, vol.115, pp.1-12. ISSN 2305-445X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7833/115-0-1224.

Mt 5:13-16 is studied with regard to universalism and interpreted in the context of the Matthean narrative. In this passage, Jesus entrusts his disciples with a centrifugal ministry that addresses Jews and Gentiles alike and that is to be carried out immediately after the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5-7). Mt 5:13-16 thus stands in tension to the established scholarly view that the disciples carry out a universal mission only after Jesus's resurrection (cf. Mt 28:19). The universalism of Mt 5:1316 rather suggests to divide the Matthean narrative into a universalistic beginning, a particularistic interim time (cf. Mt 10:5-6), and a universalistic open end.

Keywords : Matthean story; mission; Sermon on the Mount; universalism.

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