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The New Testament Parody of Pontius Pilate’s Stepped Street

Dr. Edward P. Meadors*

Taylor University; Upland, Indiana

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Received Date: October 27, 2020;  Published Date: November 10, 2020

Abstract

This short study entertains the possibility that the current excavation of the “Stepped” or “Monumental” street of Jerusalem may reveal the historic referent behind John the Baptist’s parody of the Roman road system recounted in the Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament (Matthew 3:3; Mark 1:2-3; Luke 3:4-6). The excavation of the Stepped Street in Jerusalem became known to me a month after submitting my final draft of the New Testament Studies article, “Isaiah 40.3 and the Synoptic Gospels’ Parody of the Roman Road System” (NTS 66.1 (Jan 2020) pp. 106-24). In that article, I proposed that the Synoptic Gospels’ pronouncements of Isaiah 40.3 invite a comparison with the Roman road system and its Roman imperial ideology

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