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Law in the New Testament: Fresh Light on the Parable of the Good Samaritan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

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Luke x. 25–37 is variously interpreted and is usually attacked as clumsy and inharmonious. Luke's contrived contexts are so many that one suspects that the parable must be independent of its context. Yet about both much remains to be said. The formerly debated status of the Samaritan vis-à-vis Jews was clarified by Professor Joachim Jeremias in his Jerusalem zur Zeit Jesu,1 and other problems still demand attention.

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page 27 note 10 Exod. xxiii. 4, 5; Deut. xxii. 1–4.

page 28 note 1 b. B.M. 30a=Sonc. 186. b. Ber. 19b= Sons. 118–19.

page 28 note 2 b. Ber. 19b=Sonc. 117–18.

page 28 note 3 Mid. R. Exod. xv, 19 (on xii. I) = Sonc. 183–4. For priests' avoidance of graves see Mid. R. Lev. (Ked.) XXIV, 7=Sonc. 309; XXVI, 5=Sonc. 329–30.

page 28 note 4 b. Ber. 19b = Sonc. 118; b. Meg. 3b = Sonc. 13–14; b. Shab. 81b = Sonc. 387.

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page 28 note 6 b. Ta'anit 21a= Sonc. 104–5.

page 28 note 7 M. Sheni v, 9; Ter. IV, 2. For forestalling by levites see b. Έr. 31b= Sonc. 216–17. A levite shows how to rinse before eating tithe at b. Hull. 196b = Sonc. 591.

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page 30 note 2 Black, M., op. cit. p. 98Google Scholar. For the contemporary law we must look behind the fictitious considerations, the kinyan sudar, q.v. in any textbook and encyclopaedia of Jewish law.

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page 30 note 6 άπελπίοντες cannot mean ‘expecting therefrom’ or ‘expecting in return’, not merely because it is unexampled, but because such a transaction would emphatically not be a loan, but a gift.

page 31 note 1 ‘Do this and live’ (v. 28b) recalls Gen. xiii. 18.

page 31 note 2 Mid. R. Deut. VIII, 4=Sonc. 152.

page 31 note 3 Mid. R. Gen. (Vayyishlah) Lxxx, 2–3= Sonc. 736–7. Theodor, J. and Albeck, Ch., Bereschit Rabba, par. XLVIII–LXXVI (Berlin, 1927), p. 953Google Scholar. Yalkūt Shim 'onī, p. 523Google Scholar. Levi paid (Exod. xxxii. 26)— see Yalkūt, p. 955Google Scholar (I. Ziegler, Königsgleichnisse, Breslau, , 1903, p. 249)Google Scholar. On b. Sot. 22b= Sonc. 112 see Gertner, M., B.S.O.A.S. XXVI (1963), 260, 262.Google Scholar

page 31 note 4 Heb. xi. 31; Jas. ii. 25.

page 31 note 5 b. Ber. 11a=Sonc. 60–3. Kadushin, Max, Rabbinic Mind (New York, 1952), p. 125Google Scholar. Shema' and robbers!

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page 31 note 7 Loisy saw the relevance, but Lagrange denied it.

page 31 note 8 b. Yoma 24b= Sonc. 113 (cf. Mishnah at b. Yoma 25a = Sonc. 116). Mishnah, Menahot, IX at b. Men. 86b=Sonc. 522; ibid. XII (end) and Sonc. 641–2, 658. Cell (or Chamber) of the House of Oils (see any plan of the Temple). Letter of Aristeas, § 92.Google Scholar

page 32 note 1 Bell, Jud. v, xiii, 6 (Niese, v, 565, vol. 6, p. 511, but the text of Naber, S. A., Teubner, 1895, is better). Cf. Jdt. Xi. 13.Google Scholar

page 32 note 2 Gerhardsson, B., Good Samaritan (Copenhagen, 1958), p. 15.Google Scholar

page 32 note 3 Cohen, A., introd. to Sonc. trans. b. Άvodāh Zarāh (London, 1935), p. xiii.Google Scholar

page 32 note 4 b. Yoma 55b = Sonc. 263, b.B.K. 69b = Sonc. 399 (Cuthean wine!). b. Hull. 6a = Sonc. 24. Mixed substances might not be titheable. Were the two poured simultaneously, as insisted by Ps.-Chrysostom, In parab. eius q. incid. in latr., Migne, P.G. LXII, col. 755, 757—αναμίξας? Cf. b. Shab. 134a = Sonc. 673.

page 32 note 5 Mishnah, , Demai, I, 4 (Danby, p. 21)Google Scholar; Shab. IX, 4 (ibid. p. 108). Schwab, M., Talm. de Jérus. III (1902), 210–11 (Masser Schéni, II, I).Google Scholar

page 32 note 6 Wine: Deut. xxxii. 38 (Άv. Zar. 31a=Sonc. 147); Mishnah, , Άv. Zar. II, 3 (Danby, p. 438)Google Scholar, b. Άv. Zar. 31a=Sonc. 155–6; b. Nid. 56b=Sonc. 397, 57a=400. Oil: Mishn. Άv. Zar. II, 6 (Danby, p. 439), Sonc. p. 171, n. 8. Cf. Jos., Vita, 13. R. Judah II permitted the oil: Άv. Zar. 35b–36a = Sonc. 173–6.

page 32 note 7 Jdt. x. 5; xii. 1–4, 19; Dan. i. 8; b. Shab. 13b, 17b.

page 33 note 1 Does Cullmann, O. go too far, in Early Church (London, 1956), p. 186 (race-prejudice)?Google Scholar

page 33 note 2 ‘Do this and live’ recalls Deut. v. 30; vi. 24; Lev. xviii. 5. ‘Go’ recalls Exod. iii. 16, iv. 12, 19; xxxii. 7. Cf. Matt. ii. 20; Acts ix. 15; Luke xvii. 19. The word is attributed to Jesus in this conclusive sensel Luke v. 24; vii. 50; viii. 48; John iv. 50; viii. II. But ‘hither’ at Luke xviii. 22d (sequel to the deuteronomic section) is, as it were, an improvement. Manson, T. W. said (Teaching of Jesus, Cambridge, 1955, p. 301)Google Scholar that Jesus refused to legislate, but this is using the word ‘legislate’ in another sense.

page 34 note 1 Sifre on Num. 131. Mark xiv. 62 appears to contain an example.

page 34 note 2 Rom. xiii. 8–10; Gal. v. 14; Jas. ii. 8–12. Sifre, 782. Mid. R. Levit. (Ked.) XXIV, 5= Sonc. 307–8.

page 34 note 3 Sifra, para. Kedoshim (trans. Winter, , p. 507)Google Scholar. Bacher, , Agada, I, 417–18Google Scholar; Moore, , Judaism, II (Cambridge, Mass., 1927/1958), 85Google Scholar; Abrahams, I., Studies, I (Cambridge, 1917), 1829Google Scholar; Foerster, W., Neutest. Zeitgesch. 3rd edn. (Hamburg, 1959), p. 199Google Scholar; Billerbeck, , op. cit. I, 357–8.Google Scholar

page 34 note 4 So Kosmala, , referring to Weiss and Bacher, at Judaica, IV (1948), 248ff.Google Scholar

page 34 note 5 I John iii. 17; iv. 20. Fathers acc. to R. Nathan, cited above. Didache, I, 2. Jas. iii. 9–10.

page 34 note 6 Bundy, W. E., Jesus and the First Three Gospels (Cambridge, Mass., 1955), pp. 339–40.CrossRefGoogle ScholarKnox, W. L., Sources of the Syn. Gos. II (Cambridge, 1957), 57–8Google Scholar. Tatian fits Luke x. 28b–37 on to Mark xii. 32–34 a. Matthew comments on Mark xii, 29b being excised and the misleading xxii. 38–39a added.

page 34 note 7 Άv., Zar. II, 5 (Danby, p. 439).Google ScholarJeremias's, J. suggestion (after Lightfoot) at Z.N.W. XXVI, (1926), 129Google Scholar, though plausible linguistically, is not now adhered to. Lightfoot, Hor. Heb. Works, (London, 1823, xii, p. 99)Google Scholar draws attention to a similar amoraitic usage.

page 34 note 8 Fathers acc. to R. Nathan, trans. p. 112Google Scholar. Mekilta, Kaspa 2, cited above. Billerbeck, , op. cit. I, 358.Google Scholar

page 34 note 9 Mishnah, , Ber. IX, 5 (Danby, p. 10)Google Scholar, b. Ber. 54a= Sonc. 328: middāh, modeh, me'od. Midrash Tannaim…Devarim (Hoffmann), pp. 25, 26. Rashi, ad loc. Wünsche, , Neue Beitrüge (Göttingen, 1878), p. 437.Google Scholar

page 35 note 1 Mishnah, Ber. IX, 5; b. Ber. 61b=Sonc. 385; b. San. 74a= Sonc. 502; Targ. Onkelos, Deut. vi. 4b (5). The LXX trans. me'od as ıσχύς only at II Kings xxiii. 25, and as δύναμıς only at Deut. vi. 5 (!).

page 35 note 2 So Delitzsch. Alef and Ayin are interchangeable and may be removed or added according to the 'al-tikrey technique. Thus one answers Johnson's, S. E. doubt at Harv. Theol. Rev. XXXVI, (1943), 146–7.Google Scholar

page 35 note 3 Jer. xxii. 15–16; Ecclus. xlix. 1–4. b. Shab. 56b=Sonc. 264.

page 35 note 4 Easton, B. S., Gospel acc. to St Luke (New York, 1926), p. 168Google Scholar. II Kings xxiii. 3 takes up Deut. iv. 19; X. 12; xi. 13; xiii. 3; xxvi. 16; xxx. 2, 6, 10.

page 35 note 5 Fathers acc. to Nathan, R., XVI (trans. Goldin, p. 86)Google Scholar: ‘…as thyself: I am the Lord. And why is that? Because I have created him (Isa. xlv. 8). Indeed, if he acts as thy people do, thou shalt love him; but if not, thou shalt not love him.’

page 35 note 6 Billerbeck, ubi cit. Fichtner, J., Kittel-Friedrich, , Theol. Wört. z. N.T. VI (1959), 210–14Google Scholar. Only in Exod. xi. 2 can the word re'a mean ‘non-Jew’ exclusively—and the context is peculiar. Exod. xx. 16, 17; Lev. xix. 13; xx. 10; Deut. iv. 42; xix. 4, 5, 14 are doubtful, but rabbinical exegesis confines the second Leviticus citation to Jews: b. San. 52b=Sonc. 356. The following are certain examples of re'a meaning Jews: Exod. xxi. 14; xxii. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 26 (cf. 25); Lev. xix. 17 (= brother); and Deut. xv. 2. Lev. xix. 34 is evidence, but why was it necessary to add it? The ger toshav was therefore not a ‘neighbour’ in the sense of v. 18. Deut.x. 18–19 proves that what was meant was charity. The choice of v. 18 to go with Deut. vi. 4 (5), ignoring v. 34, calls for emphatic comment. Lev. xxiv. 17–22 is not to the point. Deut. xxiv. 7 was never taken in the inclusive sense.

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page 35 note 8 ύπολαβών in v. 30 indicates lively debate, therefore the parable is a retort (so Lagrange). The word appears 22 times in Job.

page 36 note 1 Jer. xviii. 22; Job v. 18.

page 36 note 2 Jer. xxx. 17. Mid. R. Levit. XVIII, 5=Sonc. 233. Mid. R. Deut. III, 3=Sonc. 70, 71. Mid. R. Num. (Shelach Lecha) XVII.I=Sonc. 698.

page 36 note 3 Exod. xx. 6. Gen. xxix. 20; xxii. 2, xxiv. 67; xxv. 28, xxxvii. 3, 4, xliv. 20.

page 36 note 4 Mid. R. Deut. II, 33=Sonc. 61–2.

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page 37 note 1 A draft of this article was read by the Rev. Richard Coggins, Professor J. B. Segal and the Rev. Professor C. F. Evans. I am grateful for their comments, and also for encouragement from Dr M. Gertner. I have profited from discussion with Dr K. G. Klemen, a former pupil of Professor E. Stauffer and the author of a thesis on this parable.