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- Title: Blessing God and Cursing People: James 3:9-10 (Essay)
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 190 KB
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The Birkat ha-minim, the twelfth blessing in the Shemoneh Esreh or Eighteen Benedictions, has played an important role in some reconstructions of early Christian history. (1) In 1964, for example, W. D. Davies urged that, sometime around 85 C.E., the twelfth benediction was reformulated so as to include a curse against Christians: "Let the notserim and minim perish in a moment:' Davies thought this circumstance relevant for understanding the Gospel of Matthew, and especially the Sermon on the Mount, which he interpreted in the light of a growing hostility between the synagogue and followers of Jesus. (2) A few years later, J. Louis Martyn offered a similar thesis regarding John. (3) Paying special attention to John 9:22; 12:42; and 16:2, all of which use the term [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], Martyn related portions of the Fourth Gospel to the Birkat haminim, which, he argued, functioned to separate Christians from the synagogue.
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