Dimensioni socio-religiose della parrhesia giudaica nella tradizione linguistica dei testi biblici

Abstract

First published in Parrhesia e dissimulazione. La verità di fronte al potere («Politica e Religione», 2012-2013), pp. 31-61.

This paper shows that while the Greek parrhesia is above all concerned with the public and political spheres, the one of the Jews integrates and directs both spheres towards a different perspective, in which the religious dimension is strongest. In this new dimension parrhesia is framed within a religion based on the “law”. In such a context, although on the one hand parrhesia is a legitimate claim to freedom, on the other it can be turned into a licence to persecute those who do not obey the law. The history of the term, however, demonstrates how the dialectic between its exclusively political and exclusively religious use is a permanent feature of the biblical interpretation of parrhesia, both in the Jewish context and, subsequently, in that of the New Testament.