St. Matthew Passion
By: Hans Blumenberg ; translated by Helmut Müller-Sievers and Paul Fleming
Contributors: Müller-Sievers, Helmut, translator; Fleming, Paul, 1968- translator
Series: Signale / TRANSFER; Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Ithaca [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781501705809; 9781501759079; 9781501759062
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Passion; Criticism, interpretation; Passion of Jesus Christ; Bible; Matthäuspassion (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
Work titles: Matthäuspassion
Description: "This book of biblical scholarship explores the passion story in its four very distinct Gospel versions alongside its musical appropriation by Johann Sebastian Bach's in his oratorio. It probes the founding myth of the Christian West as not merely the sacrifice of a god (by a god), but also the abandonment of a son by a father, due to a creation gone awry that left humanity to fend on its own"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The horizon; title: Escalations of a God; title: Corporeality; title: Apostates; title: Between two murderers; title: The imperceptibility of the Messiah; title: The tears; title: The excesses of the philosopher's God