Naître de mourir: la mort de Jésus dans l’Évangile de Matthieu (Mt 27.51-56)

What is the meaning of the apocalyptic events related in the Gospel of Matthew after the death of Jesus? The issue is treated in two stages, beginning with a short review of current interpretations (historical, causal, and semiologic). In a second step, the spatial and temporal disruptions that cross the story are explored. The hypothesis is made, with consideration of the figures’ sequence, that they are the figurative expression of a childbirth. Time and place of death are thus those of a birth, Jesus is literally ‘the firstborn from the dead’. It is finally suggested that the reader's actualisation of this peculiar figures’ chain corresponds to the birth of a believing subject. Naître de mourir: la mort de Jésu dans l'Évangile de Matthieu (Mt 27.51-56) / Serge Wüthrich......Page 3 The Accommodations of Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem: Καταλυμα in Luke 2.7 / Stephen C. Carlson......Page 16 The Narrative Structures of Glory and Glorification in the Fourth Gospel / Jesper Tang Nielsen......Page 33 Israel and the Mercy of God: A Re-reading of Galatians 6.16 and Romans 9-11 / Susan Grove Eastman......Page 57 Can the Messiahship of Jesus Be Read off Paul's Grammar? Nils Dahl's Criteria 50 Years Later / Matthew V. Novenson......Page 86 The Hermeneutical Significance of Chapter Divisions in Ancient Gospel Manuscripts / James R. Edwards......Page 103 Papias as Rhetorician: Ekphrasis in the Bishop's Account of Judas' Death / Christopher B. Zeichmann......Page 117