AUTHORS: ANNA MAMBELLI;

WORK PACKAGE: WP 8 – uBIQUity

URL: https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1120-4001

Keywords: Gospel of Luke, Septuagint, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Destruction of Jerusalem, Prophetic, Language and Literature, Intertextuality

Abstract
This study investigates the prophecies of Jesus on the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple as they appear in the Gospel of Luke (13:34–35, and especially 19:41–44; 21:5–6, 20–24; 23:28–31) in light of their intertextual relationship with passages or texts from Scripture. The analysis focuses on how certain terms or expressions of the prophetic language of Jeremiah, and to a lesser extent of Lamentations, are borrowed through the Septuagint version (e.g., ἡμέραι ἔρχονται), recombined, and modified by Luke. This research, however, is not only lexical and comparative but also enters the exegetical field. It explores the reasons for and meaning of the use of LXX Jeremiah in these particular passages of the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus himself is speaking in the midst of the impending catastrophe.