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Why Mc 1.10 sec. the descent of the Spirit upon Jesus is compared to the descent of a dove? This dilemma has tortured generations of commentators, unable to find appropriate analogies for such a biblical metaphor, and therefore forced to "explain it using the most strange parallel in the history of religions" (J. Jeremias, New Testament Theology , Paideia, Brescia, 1976, p. 65).
We wanted the head of an Australian scholar, Joan Taylor, to solve the riddle. And saying no head I refer to both the intellect but the end of the Lady, but rather to his tawny hair. So the same
Taylor relates the genesis of his discovery, that the sacred writer, far from wanting to make the symbolism was referring to a well-known and shocking experience:
"In 1986 , I was walking across Jaffa Road in Jerusalem When a chamber where flying out of the sky and the top of my head brusched before disappearing again over the rooftops. Perhaps It Was A mother bird Whose nest nearby and Was She Was Protecting her young. At Any rate, it Seems to me that the experience of Being hit by a where Might Have Made a good parallel to being hit by the Spirit of God, if the Spirit was understood to have been like a rushing wind. (…) I can verify that a dove coming down on someone with wings flapping is something like a very powerful rush of wind striking one’s head, with a noise of windy flurry and flapping. It is quite a shock and is certainly not a gentile experience” (J. Taylor, The Immerser: John the Baptist in Second Temple Judaism , Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1997, p. 274).
Altro che il bucolico “frusciando dolcemente come una colomba” che cerca di propinarci Jeremias (op. cit., p. 66)! La mia esperienza ravvicinata (sebbene non così tanto) with the flight paths of the inane and disgusting nefarious creature known as "pigeon" or "pigeon", leads me to take sides without hesitation for the exegesis of the Taylor unclean (pigeon) or white (dove) that is, a bird that will flicker over the head is not pleasant experience for everyone.
My only disagreement is about the motivations of the dove, far from interpreting the mane of the Australian scholar as a threat to their nest, the bird of Jerusalem thought most likely to land on its nest precisely ...