Why would Luke make them so fickel? -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 04:34:11 03/26/08 Wed
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: Why would Luke make them so fickel?

Continuing the thoughts on the fickelness of the crucifixion crowd, when I was last working in the writing center, a student brought in a short piece questioning the arbitrariness of the violence against Paul and Barnabas. The student asked how crowds could change so fast from worship to "kill them." Instead of trying to answer "why" the mechanism works the way that it does, I urged her to consider just "why" the author would include this story. As we thought about the details: a crowd who first worships the man who enters their city, comes together to deify/crown him, encounters a distrubance or moment of chaos, turns against the man they were worshiping, takes him outside the city, kills him, he gets up again, and returns to the city--it sounded to me like the crufixion narrative--only a Pauline version of the story. I am even more convinced of this because Luke authors both accounts. Does Luke merely wish to argue that this is the way the world will behave against those confront them in their blindness? A "if-they-called-the-master-of-the-house-Beelzebub-how-much-more-so-the-servants" moment?

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How fickel? -- Betsy Peters, 19:40:50 03/31/08 Mon