Abstract
Contemporary Christian body theology focuses on recovering a Jewish understanding of the unity of the body and soul against a dualism inherited from Greek philosophy. The Gospel of Matthew presents several instances when Jesus speaks of dismemberment (5:29–30, 18:8–9, 19:12, 24:45–51), in which he adopts a rhetoric, familiar from the Hebrew Bible, of violently controlling the body. However, the emphasis on self-control exercised through violence upon one's own body finds its background in the body-soul dualism of Hellenistic literature. These dismemberment logia problematize the claims of body theologians that body-soul dualism is foreign to the Christian tradition.
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