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  1. Étude 1 : Les questions des pharisiens et des hérodiens
  2. Étude 2 : Le code d'Hammourabi

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  • PER295 The questions of the Pharisees and the Herodians

    In the Temple of Jerusalem, the Sadducees try to trap Jesus with a question about the resurrection involving a woman who had seven husbands. Jesus answers by revealing their ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God: in the life to come, people no longer marry. He proves the resurrection from the Torah by quoting Exodus 3.6: God is the God of the living, not of the dead. His adversaries are reduced to silence.

    Matthew 22.23-33 (King James Version) :
    The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.And last of all the woman died also.Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
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Historical notes

  • INF008 Le code d'Hammourabi

    Le Code d'Hammourabi autorisait une femme stérile à proposer sa servante à son mari pour assurer une descendance, l'enfant étant reconnu comme légitime. Cette pratique, répandue dans l'ancien Proche-Orient, n'était pas prescrite dans la Loi de Moïse. Elle éclaire le geste de Sarah proposant Agar à Abraham, un acte culturellement acceptable mais contraire à la promesse divine spécifique faite à Abraham concernant sa descendance.

    Genesis 29.31 (King James Version) :
    And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.NoteReuben: that is, See a sonNoteSimeon: that is, HearingNoteLevi: that is, JoinedNoteJudah: that is, PraiseNoteleft…: Heb. stood from bearing
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