This Is My Flesh: John's Eucharist and the Dionysus Cult - Couverture souple

Cho, Jae Hyung

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 172529852X ISBN 13 : 9781725298521

Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2022

Synopsis

In John 6:51–59, John describes the Eucharist of Jesus by modeling Dionysus. In particular, John 6:53, “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” is one of the most difficult verses found anywhere in the Bible. To explain this, a new approach is needed when one consistently contemplates why John uses flesh (σάρξ) instead of body (σῶμα), and “This is my flesh”, instead of “This is my body.” The Dionysiac ritual of eating and tearing raw flesh shows cannibalistic elements. Unlike other negative descriptions of cannibalism in ancient literature, Dionysus is described as both an eater and a giver of raw flesh. By reevaluating the negative term of cannibalism, John positively applies this Dionysiac cannibalism to the Eucharistic words in 6:51–59. Because emphatically and slightly ironically, scholars’ arguments show that John 6 is still a “hard teaching” of Jesus, Jesus’ hard saying (6:60) is a consequence of this cannibalistic language and the ambiguous features of Dionysus.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jae Hyung Cho is a lecturer at Korea Christian University at Seoul, South Korea. He is the author of Greco-Roman Religion and the New Testament and Early Christianity and Gnosticism, which are published in Korean.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pickwick Publications
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 172529852X
• ISBN 13: 9781725298521
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
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