• k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Is his death and resurrection actually the climax of the book?

    • Malgas@beehaw.org
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      5 days ago

      It’s not really a narrative, so doesn’t follow a narrative structure. At most you could consider it an anthology, but even then there’s stuff in there that doesn’t really fit the model. (Though The Iliad also has stuff like the catalogue of ships and an entire book that is just a description of Achilles’ shield, so maybe I’m picking nits by the standards of ancient literature…)

      That said, death and resurrection is definitely the climax of several individual books of the new testament.