I just searched to see if you, Dr. Ehrman, wrote any posts about Jesus and Solomon and did not find anything. I searched “Jesus and Solomon”.
QUESTION:
Have you written about Jesus and Solomon or Jesus or the gospel writers referencing Solomon?
Reference A: Solomon and Jesus on Mules
Jn 12:13-14 The people shouted Hosanna … King of Israel. Then at v14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it.
1 Kgs 1:29 -35 where David is dying and he gives instructions for Solomon to be mounted upon a mule and then be designated ruler of Israel and Judah.
Reference B:God, ready to destroy his kingdoms in the Promised Land/Holy Land
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants and Jesus Laments over Jerusalem (Luke 19: 41-44)
1 Kgs 9: 6-9 God tells Solomon if you and/or your people turn away from me I will cut off Israel
1 Kgs 11:11-13 God divides the United Kingdom of Solomon
Bart
No, I’ve never written about that. Solomon, of course, is not a major figure referenced in the NT.
Steefen
Well, I’ll make a third NT reference.
1. Solomon on a mule after being granted David’s successor; Jesus on mule symbolizing being granted a kingdom.
2. God foretells taking down Solomon’s kingdom; God foretells taking down Jesus’s kingdom.
3. Solomon is wise (1 Kings 4:30) . Jesus is not only greater than Jonah but greater in wisdom than Solomon (Mt 12: 41-42)
1. Maybe if Jesus did not ride in on a mule, the message of his symbolism would not have given his enemies substance for claiming he not only talked about a kingdom but he made a symbolic public display that he should be king
2. God told Jesus that there was tribulation and suffering to occur in the Judean territory of the Roman Empire, something for which the patron empire of Judea would be gravely concerned.
3. Jesus’s reference to Solomon announced his wisdom was great and worthy of acceptance. That wisdom also included #1 (kingdom of God granted to the Son of Man first person and successor third person).
Take away Solomon, you lose the political threat of Jesus and crucifixion as consequence of him being a political threat, you lose Jesus foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem and the third-person Son of Man, and you lose the claim that the teachings of Jesus are more valuable than the wisdom of Solomon.
Solomon is foundational in the gospels for these reasons, yes?
BDEhrman
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