The Image Of Moses In The New Testament Studies

Moses is a very important character in the Hebrew Bible, in which the core event like the Exodus build what the Israelite believes. And in this core event, Moses played a core role. The continuous speech and memory of the author the Hebrew Bible for Mose is a general practice in order to return the Exodus tradition. In the New Testament, a lot of themes related to Jewish faith traditions, and at this time, Moses who will be used as representative of the traditional beliefs, would become the key object of the author of the New Testament. Therefore, Moses was an important clue character between the two. Afterwards the Hebrew Bible was know as the Old Testament and the Christian's own classic was called the New Testament which referring the renewal and replacement to the traditional beliefs, but as a matter of fact the New Testament itself is the inheritance and development of a large number of Old Testament ideas. Therefore, analysis and interpretation on the image of Mose in the New Testament is a is proper research for learning these inheritance and development. This paper is a study on the image of Moses in the New Testament, through which whether the inheritance and innovation Christianity took from Jewish faith tradition would be explored. In order to make it we will focus on the book of Matthew and John, as well as the Epistle of Paul, namely the book of Rome and2nd Corinthians. The reasons of why I just focus in these books is, on one hand, in these couple of the scroll of the New Testament, Mose is more concentrated, so ignoring the other scroll on the Moses's image can not affect our overall judge for Mose, on the other hand, is that the academic achievements in this part is more abundant which is helpful for us to absorb and finish this theme.In the Matthew, Moses often represent the Jewish traditional beliefs. Through the text referred to the term Mose is not the focus of our analysis, the places where the name of Mose is hidden but also everywhere for describing and memorizing Moses tradition would be the focus. We'll see, Matthew the author is very urgent to make readers realize that the association between Jesus and Mose. In other words, Matthew the author at least in these chapters, make Jesus portrayed as a new Mose.In the Gospel of John, the author almost in the beginning taking Mose as the clue, constructed a complete narrative unit on the teachings of Jesus. This characteristic does not show in other books of the New Testament. In this narrative unit, the author of the gospel of John thought that Mose has talked the arrival of Jesus, points out that since the opponents were dependent on their holy authority, namely Moses, then the argument that Jesus surpasses Moses can break this dependence of the opponents.In the Epistles of Paul, especially in Rome and Corinthians, at first glance, the Moses's images takes some pejorative color. Comparing the Matthew and the John, Moses's images in here seems to have been changed. However this is not a simple sense of position. In fact, Paul's writing on a deep analysis of the Moses tradition, based on the elucidation of their salvation theology of Christianity. Compared with the above two Gospels, the letters of Paul is more directly take account of of the the problem of the old faith traditions, and through the analysis we can find, Paul indeed has compassions on the traditions of Mose.Based on these scrolls of the New Testament, we will analyze the image of Moses and will attempt to summing up an overall impression of the image of Moses in the New Testament in order to illustrate the inheritance and innovation of the New Testament to the Old Testament. However, the images of Moses in the New Testament is complicated and full of tension, which reflects a different understanding of the different book on the Moses-tradition, therefore this paper also tries to find the resolution of these differences.