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The Transfiguration of Jesus: Narrative Meaning and Function of Mark 9:2–8, Matt 17:1–8 and Luke 9:28–36 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first monograph devoted to all three accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus from a narrative-critical, audience-oriented perspective. It proposes a new literary genre designation for all three versions, that a “pivotal mandatory epiphany,” based upon the precedents in Numbers 22:31–35, Joshua 5:13–15, and 2 Maccabees 3:22–34. The background and meaning of each of the major motifs...

taking place in heaven. The transfiguration of Jesus into a heavenly being, the appearance of the heavenly figures of Moses and Elijah, and the appearance of the divine overshadowing cloud out of which comes the voice of God are all narrated as events that take place in the earthly (on a mountain) rather than heavenly realm. Although the heavenly figures of Moses and Elijah “appear” (ὤφθη in Matt 17:3; Mark 9:4; ὀφθέντες in Luke 9:31) before the three disciples, their appearance is narrated as
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