Jesus holding a magic stick?

In the third or fourth century, the bread painted by the Annapo Catacomb. The clean Jesus has shown it like a stick.

Did Jesus use a magic stick while performing his miracles? It seems – if we decide Jesus’ early reflection in Christian art.

Early Christian painting gives us valuable insights about the aesthetics of early Christians. Influenced by the Bible and Apocryphal texts, the oldest Christian imagery is also a window of the religious thinking of Jesus’ third and fourth centuries followers. Basically, coming from entertainment context, the early Christian art is rich in Katbus and small sculptures such as Sarkovogi and Tom Stones. It is not surprising that the storage of maps expressed in these media is mostly associated with later life and healing (physical or spiritual).

In Rome, the Santa Sabina Church took pride at the wooden door with 18 carved scenes of the old and New Testament. Formed in 432 CE, this panel displays (from the top down) Jesus performing miracles with amazing staff: nurturing the obligation; The multiplication of bread and fish; And converting water into alcohol at the occasion of marriage in Kayana. Photo: Jim forest

In his article “Jesus Jesus? Jesus, why do Jesus stick to the early Christian art” in the fall of 2020 ” Bible archeology reviewsIn Kentucky’s Dean Valley, Lee M. Jefferson of the Center College often zoom on a special article of artistic maps. When healing or miracle, Jess holds a stick or stick. “Jesus has implemented (sometimes called one Verse Or Ribbus) Either presented as thick and road, such as sirkovogi, or thin and red, such as in paintings paintings. He uses it in a miracle performance, which concludes that many scholars concluded that the early Christians considered Jesus as a magician. The problem with this identity is that the early Christians have made the magic very defamed, “Jefferson gave remarks, before introducing different representatives of Jesus and his miracle tool.

The new religion (Christianity) authority was to fully imagine and nurture the most famous scene of the early Christian entertainment. Jesus usually stands in front of a small shrine in which the rotating cadore is held and he uses a magic wand to ask for his grave, where he died for four days (John 11).

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The amazing episodes shown on the early Sarkovs of the fourth century include (left to right) Peter, the arrest of Peter, the capture of Peter, the arrest of Jesus in the cans, the healing of the blind, the multiplication of bread and fish, and the upbringing of the luxury.

Although the Bible has never mentioned Jesus using a magic stick to perform its miracles, you may remember other prominent Bible personalities who used a similar device to work miracles. Moses allegedly used a stick to separate the Pacific to protect his people from Pharaoh’s army while escaping from Egypt from Egypt (Exodus 14). And later he used a stick to attack the rock and provide drinking water to his fellow Israelis while wandering the promised land (Exodus 17: 2). Is this a place where the early Christians thought, or were they influenced by the infidel imagination of the Greco -Roman world?

Jesus picked up the luxury (top left), while Moses is attacking the rock to pull water near Mount Horb (top right). In Rome, the mid -fourth -century couple in the Red Cubicoom of Dumitella showed a clear parallel parallel to the early Christians for the salvation of Moses for the new Israel, for the old Israel and the new Israel through Jesus.

The only other personality of the Testament that can be seen using a stick to perform a miracle in early Christian art is the messenger Peter. Giving an example of a symptom confirmed in Apocryphal literature, this scenario is commonly shown to be hitting a rock with a stick, in the presence of two other personalities, who wear Roman military garments and head gear. According to the legend, Peter miraculously opened a spring of water during his detention in Rome, which he then baptized to his two jailers.

Peter Rasool is attacking a rock to pull water, with which his two Roman jailers should be baptized. Here was seen in the left niche, this scenario is from C. 365 and in Rome, the ancient has been painted on ancient katakum on ancient. The shape is derived from Peter’s apocryphal process.

Modern pop culture and literary characters, such as Harry Potter, can be forgiven for interpreting the mysterious device’s magical stick. The truth is even more complicated and interesting. Jefferson explained, “For the early Christians, it was not magical to do miracles with Jesus staff. Rather, it was, internally the Bible (remembering Moses) and naturally Kalisal (preventing the supremacy of the church).”

To dive into various representation with Jesus’ stick and to discover their true meaning, Lee M. Jeffersen’s article “Jesus Jesus? Why did Jesus hold a stick in early Christian art,” Read, published in the fall of 2020. Bible archeology reviews.

Users: Through Lee M. Jeffersen, “Jesus Jesus? Why are Jesus holding sticks in early Christian art,” Read, in the fall of 2020 Bible archeology reviews.

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A version of this post first appeared in Bible History daily in September 2020

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