myDidrijfzandlopen Moddergooien & Slijkaanbidden?!



Anyway:
Rabbi Akiva himself
was the prototypical Jewish martyr.

This is brought out beautifully in an otherwise curious
but nevertheless insightful scholarly comment from the previous generation:
"Rabbi Akiva himself stated on the scriptural words,
'He is my G d and I will praise Him (Exodus 15:2)':
I shall speak of the splendour ...
The biblical phrase
'my Beloved is white and red'
alludes to the ecstatic vision
which was given to the martyrs in the days of their torments,
and at the hour when they
gave up their ghost."

The oddness of this interpretation is,
of course, that it positivistically attributes the text to Rabbi Akiva himself.
Since, however, Rabbi Akiva, according to rabbinic discourse, was the first of the martyrs of his time,
he hardly could have expounded upon the ecstatic vision that those martyrs beheld.
"And when Rabbi Akiva was executed in Caesarea,
the news reached Rabbi Yehuda ben Baba and Rabbi Hanina ben Teradyon.
They rose and girded their loins with sackcloth ...
In a short time from now, no place will be found in Palestine where bodies of the slain will not be thrown." This is obviously a very late text, and I am citing it only as evidence
for the traditional status of Rabbi Akiva's being
the first of the martyrs. The comment nevertheless may be recuperated for its insight
because it is virtually certain that it was not Rabbi Akiva himself who authored the text.
Instead, then, of a problematic "historical text," we have a semifictionalized representation,
a pseudo-autobiography, that alludes to the ecstatic visions of dying martyrs and
attributes them to Rabbi Akiva as the prototype.
We are, of course, immediately reminded of the vision
of the about-to-die Stephen
{Stefanos} in Acts 7:58.

We hebben het er
allemaal meest wel eerder en vaker
over gehad?! "Bijbelse geschiedenis" & 'wereldgeschiedenis'
zijn nu eenmaal onuitwisbaar in elkaar verwikkeld tot in de kleinste details vooral
via alle volken in 't Nabije Midden Oosten sinds alweer vele duizenden jaren tot op de mydidag
van vandaag: alle tegenwoordige hoofdrolspelers hebben er nog steeds
mee te maken als 't gaat om zaken als vrede, gerechtigheid,
politieke & oorlogshandelingen, al die andere hypes,
vormen van huichelarij & pogingen
tot oprechtheid &
eerlijkheid
...
engel
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