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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...

conclusion. This is confirmed as Jesus alone is left with the three disciples after they hear this dramatic command from the voice of God (Mark 9:8; Matt 17:8; Luke 9:36). That Jesus alone is left there underlines that the command is to listen to him alone as God’s Son. The epiphany has ended as the heavenly figures of Moses and Elijah have disappeared with the cloud and Jesus no longer appears to be in a transfigured state. Reactions of fear on the part of the witnesses to the sudden and awesome
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