“The Wedding Feast of Blood on Golgotha”: An Unusual Aspect of John 19:34 in Syriac TraditionThe HarpSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BB7X6FLB/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Sebastian P.Brock“The Wedding Feast of Blood on Golgotha”: An Unusual Aspect of John 19:34 in Syriac Traditionhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BB7X6FLBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/BB7X6FLBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/BB7X6FLBThe Harp6:21993121-134"The single verse, John 19:34, describing the piercing of Christ's side on the Cross, serves as the centre point for an astonishingly rich and elaborate web of typological exegesis in early Syriac poetry-a web which looks back to the birth of Eve from the side of the First Adam (Gen. 2:21-22) in primordial time and the sealing off Paradise from fallen Adam and Eve by the cherub's sword (Gen. 3:24), and which then, at the same time, points forward, depicting the birth of the Church and of the Sacraments, sybolized by the blood and the water that issued from the pierced side of Christ the Second Adam, thus removing the sword that barred humanity from entry into Paradise." Christ the bridegroom and the Church his bride. (p. 121)
Brock, Sebastian P. “‘The Wedding Feast of Blood on Golgotha’: An Unusual Aspect of John 19:34 in Syriac Tradition.” The Harp 6:2 (1993): 121–34.
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