Abstract
Summary This analysis of Czesław Miłosz’s late poem The Archpriest’s Son from his volume LastPoems (2006) combines a hermeneutic interpretation of this text in its historic, religious and theological contexts (the relevant contexts are sought in the writings of Geza Vermes and Leszek Kołakowski). Imitating the rhetorical patterns of the classical judicial oratio, the poem presents the contradictory assessessments of the character of Jesus. While the Christians believe him to be the Son of God and Messiah, the Orthodox Jews denounce him as a traitor and blasphemer. Miłosz problematizes the issue of Jesus’ identity without throwing his weight behind any of the two parties. It would seem that his intention is to make the reader think the key issue over by himself.
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