A szombat ünneplése az Ószövetségben, az Újszövetségben és a zsidóságban
The Celebration of the Sabbath in the Old and the New Testament and in the Judaism

Summary/Abstract: The strongest order to keep celebrating the Sabbath came down to us by two traditions; cf. Ex 20, 8-11 and Deut 5,12-15. Within the Ten Commandment, the command to celebrate the Sabbath contains the longest reasoning, while the other pieces are rather short. The Sabbath cannot be derived from other non-Jewish religious traditions; it is a genuine Jewish feast. The chosen people had started taking it seriously after the Babylonian exile, which was originally regarded rather as a day-off to rejoice and not a burden for the people. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews shares the contemporary Jewish notion of the Sabbath. For him, the Greek word katapausis seems to be equivalent with the Hebrew menucha. The charges brought against Jesus did not mention his breaking the Sabbath. In the Judaism we come across two different views on keeping the Sabbath: a liberal and a rigorous one. Jesus and his disciples seem to have adopted the liberal approach.

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