Temptations Of Jesus Research Articles

Satan’s Temptation of Jesus in the Gospels: A Critical study

The research examines the Satan’s temptation of Jesus in the Gospels by analyzing the places where this story is mentioned in the three Gospels: Matthew, Luke, and Mark. It also studies this phenomenon in some ancient religions and compares it with what is mentioned in the Gospels. The research then delves into the incident within the Gospels, comparing them with each other, highlighting their differences, and drawing parallels with what is found in ancient pagan religions. Additionally, it presents a critique of this story and demonstrates its invalidity through rational analysis. Lastly, it discusses the Islamic perspective on this matter.

Learning to Stand: Paradise Regained Today

ABSTRACT Paradise Regained deals with the testing of personal and political resolve that follows forty days of self-isolation. It thus merits our immediate attention. The seventeenth-century poem that houses a nonconformist argument for liberty of conscience within its narration of Satan's temptation of Jesus in the wilderness is both pertinent and challenging for today's readers. We can apply God's exercise of his Son to current post-quarantine deliberations regarding how we wish to live now—specifically questions of privacy, good governance (for both self and state), shared values, and the future of political engagement.

The Center of Luke’s Temptation Narrative

The Matthean and Lucan versions of the devil’s temptations of Jesus are quite similar, but the difference in their order has often troubled interpreters. Most scholars argue that Luke rearranges the Matthean sequence in order to conclude the account in Jerusalem. In this article, I propose that the difference in order should instead be attributed to Luke’s chiastic structuring of the text, which places the second temptation at the center of the pericope and aligns Luke’s version with Matthew’s emphasis on the devil’s offer of dominion and authority to Jesus, thus encouraging the hearer to consider Jesus’s authority at the inception of his ministry.

God of the Nations: Daniel, Satan, and the Temptation of Jesus in Luke

Abstract In both Matthew and Luke, Satan offers Jesus “all the kingdoms of the world” in exchange for his obeisance. Only in Luke, however, does Satan make an intriguing claim about his “authority” over the kingdoms and his prerogative to “give” such “to whomever he wishes” (4:6). Richard Hays lamented in his recent Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels that this unique detail has not been given thorough attention in exegetical studies of Luke-Acts. This study takes up the question of Satan’s claim in detail and suggests that Satan’s words are informed by a phrase that appears multiple times in the book of Daniel: “the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of mortals and gives it to whomever he wishes.” This intertextuality is important for the larger narrative of Luke-Acts in two respects. First, it presses the question of whether, from the perspective of the larger narrative, Satan’s claim is truthful. The article concludes that an answer to that question is not immediately clear; the narrative permits varied readings. Secondly, it is argued that the Danielic background of Luke 4:6 intensifies the Christological drama of the narrative. Jesus is here tested with what is legitimately his as Daniel’s “Son of Man,” and we soon find that he will receive such not from the hand of Satan but from obedience to God.

마태복음에 나타난 예수 그리스도의 세례와 시험(마 3:5-4:1)과 대속죄일의 희생양에 대한 규례(레 16:2-22)

마태복음에 나타난 예수 그리스도의 세례와 시험(마 3:5-4:1)과 대속죄일의 희생양에 대한 규례(레 16:2-22)

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Tested for Our Sake: The Temptations of Jesus in the Light of Hebrews

In this paper, I illustrate that there has been a neglect to consider what Hebrews has to say on Jesus’ temptations in studies on the temptations of Jesus. I therefore conduct an exegesis of Hebrews, whereby I argue that in the epistle, the purpose of Jesus’ temptations is understood as designed to enable fully his priestly role of intercession for those in temptation whom he represents before God. Such an anthropocentric understanding of the purpose of Jesus’ temptations makes them highly devotional in their application as I demonstrate in applying them to the experiences of the Baganda Christian martyrs of the 19th century, with the edification of Uganda Martyrs’ Seminerians in view.

Make bread out of stones: a psychoanalysis on the process of temptation

this study is based on an innovative framework where the internal development of temptation is deeply analyzed through the functions of the will so as to provide a blueprint for an effective obstruction of the temptation process. Our methodological approach finds its foundation in the analysis of the three temptations of Jesus, as presented in the bible. In order to achieve our goal, we tried to show that the will is free before entering into the debate of strength and weakness of will. We, therefore, rationalized freedom of will through quantum physics only to move to our next step that analyzes the performances of strength and weakness of will. Moreover, through the usage of the self-determination theory, we performed a psychological analysis that has helped us decipher the mechanisms of the process of temptation. Based on our findings, we then formulated our final analysis by relying on the three temptations of Jesus, which provided us with a constructive rationale for the interpretation of the basic human vulnerabilities and their relations to the basic psychological needs and the approach to address them

The third temptation of Jesus and sense of politics

The third temptation of Jesus and sense of politics

“By force or fraud / Weening to prosper”: Milton's Satanic and Messianic Modes of Heroism

“By force or fraud / Weening to prosper”: Milton's Satanic and Messianic Modes of Heroism

Against God’s Moral Goodness

While denying that God has moral obligations, William Alston defends divine moral goodness based on God's performance of supererogatory acts. The present article argues that an agent without obligations cannot perform supererogatory acts. Hence, divine moral goodness cannot be established on that basis. Defenses of divine moral obligation by Eleonore Stump and Nicholas Wolterstorffare also questioned. Against Stump, it is argued (among other things) that the temptations of Jesus do not establish the existence of a tendency to sin in a divine being. Hence, Stump's Christological objection to Alston's denial of divine moral obligation fails. Some counterexamples to that denial offered by Wolterstorff also fail. It is concluded that claims of divine moral goodness remain problematic.

Berg en huis as primêre metafore in die Matteus-evangelie

Mountain and house as primary metaphors in the Gospel of MatthewThe aim of this article is to show that mountain and house are signifi-cant theological spaces of interest. The temptation of Jesus will be interpreted within the context of the mountain-motif in Matthew. The wilderness, temple and mountain are places of eschatological expec-tations. For this reason it was suitable as places for the temptation and calling of the Son/Son of God. We will also describe house as a primary metaphor and as a space of interest with theological significance. We conclude that mountain and house as primary metaphors have a significant topological-theological meaning in the Gospel of Matthew.

The Temptation of Jesus: The Eschatological Battle and the New Ethic of the First Followers of Jesus in Q

Analyses of Q which take the Sayings Source to have originated in Cynic/sapiential circles find difficulty in explaining the place of the temptation of Jesus in either narrative or theological terms in the signs source. This essay argues that the temptation story is a report of an ecstatic experience of Jesus, which involves a heavenly journey and the defeat of Satan. There are descriptions of cognate experiences in contemporary eschatological-apocalyptic literature and in Qumran. If this reconstruction is correct, then it will lead to a major revision of our understanding of the theology of Q.

The Temptation of Jesus on the Mountain: A Palestinian Christian Polemic against Agrippa I

The story of Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness originated as a Palestinian Christian response to persecution under Agrippa I during the aftermath of the Caligula crisis (c. 42 CE). Jesus, in isolation from human society, is challenged by Satan but repudiates incitement to idolatry and betrayal of God. In so doing he serves as an antitype to Agrippa, from the perspective of those whom he persecuted. The story is preserved and developed in diverse strands of the Gospel tradition, of which the most elaborate is the triple temptation story in Q.

Book Review: The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

Book Review: The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel; By Susan R. Garrett; Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1998. 212 pp. $20.00

The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel; <i>By Susan R. Garrett</i>; Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1998. 212 pp. $20.00

Documenta Q: The Data Base of the International Q Project: Q 4:1-13, 16; The Temptations of Jesus; Nazara

Documenta Q: The Data Base of the International 9 Proect; Q 4:1-13,16, The Temptations of Jesus; Nazara, by Shawn Carruth and James M. Robinson, ed. Christoph Heil. Leuven: Peeters, 1996. Pp. xviii + 479. N.P. Documenta Q is actually the title a projected series of volumes, with the subtitle Reconstructions of 9 through Two Centuries of Gospel Research: Excerpted, Sorted and Evaluated, which the general editors are James M. Robinson, Paul Hoffmann, and John S. Kloppenborg. This volume is an analysis by the methods developed by the Q Seminar of the SBL (which became the International Q Project), the procedure which was that for each pericope one member collected and sorted the scholarly literature and wrote a first evaluation, to which other members then responded by way of critical evaluation. This volume was developed by a similar procedure, in which the first evaluation of this pericope (4:1-13; following the chapter and verse numbers Of Luke) was by Shawn Carruth, with subsequent evaluations of 4:1-4 by Darla Dee Turlington and J. M. Robinson, and of 4:5-13 by Patrick J. Hartin and Amos [Joon Ho] Chang (p. vii). The outcome of these evaluations was then reviewed by the Q Seminar as a whole, with consequent supplementing of the scholarly literature and reformulation of the evaluations, which has resulted in the massive database which is reproduced in this volume, to be followed by individual volumes on other Q pericopes. The critical text of Q is being developed by the general editors on the basis of this analytical process. The resultant critical text of Q 4:1-13, 16, is reproduced in this volume with translations in English, German, and French on pp. 463--64. The format of the volume is to print the Greek text of each subunit within the pericope in parallel columns: Mark on the left (where there is some overlap between Mark and Q); Matthew and Q in the center, with Luke on the right. The reconstructed Q text is marked with an elaborate set of sigla, which are intended to indicate the degree of probability inclusion of the words and their original sequence, and Matthew's or Luke's having included the original version of the Q material. The sigla are also used to point out where Matthew or Luke has relocated a Q text in order to fit it into a Markan setting, or to adapt it to his own Gospel structure and strategy. Further, the sigla show passages where the emendation of the text proposed by the editors as the original Q is found in neither Matthew nor Luke. …

Book Review: The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

Book Review: The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

Book Review: The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

Book Review: The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel