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Journal Article
The Sudden Deluge: Parasite, Matthew 24:36-51, and Immanent Apocalyptic Imagery
2024
Overview
Both feature oblivious carousers before a flood, sleeping homeowners, and domestic workers caught unaware by a returning homeowner. While Matthew 24:36-51 envisions an external divine force meting just judgment, Parasite centers on an immanent catastrophe that injures indiscriminately. Because characters do not experience rewards or punishments in accordance with their merit, Parasite has a tragic dimension absent in Matthew 24:36-51. To encourage clearer perception of hidden perils, both Parasite and Matthew 24:36-51 utilize imagery of oblivious carousers before a flood, sleeping homeowners, and domestic workers caught unaware by a returning homeowner.4 While Matthew 24:36-51 envisions the righteous and wayward receiving fitting rewards from a just judge, Parasite features an indiscriminately destructive catastrophe triggered by conditions of capitalism. Parasite's apocalyptic layer is immanent because economic disparities-rather than an external judge-catalyze the film's catastrophe. Since the characters in Parasite do not experience reward or punishment according to their merits, the film has a tragic dimension absent from Matthew 24:36-51. \"6 Within Biblical Studies, it has been notoriously complicated to define apocalyptic literature.7 The definition proposed by a working group led by John Collins in the 1970s has proven fruitful: \"Apocalypse\" is a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial, insofar as it involves another, supernatural world.8 While Collins' definition pertains to entire texts that display this genre, a wider range of texts share some of these characteristics. [...]when discussing apocalyptic traits in Matthew, Leopold Sabourin emphasizes that the heart of \"apocalyptic thought\" lies in divine revelations about history, including how a new age of God's reign will follow a future judgment.12 While Jesus' teaching in Matthew 24:36-51 focuses on this coming judgment, he does not directly answer the disciples' question about its timing. Since the timing of this judgment cannot be known, Jesus stresses that its arrival will be unexpected. When comparing the \"little apocalypse\" in the Synoptic Gospels, Cook contends that Matthew 24 highlights \"Christian wakefulness\" the most.13 Thus, Matthew 24:36-51 's focus on living attentive to a coming judgment is a distinctive emphasis among the synoptic versions of the \"little apocalypse.\" Since adjusting behavior in light of a future judgment is a hallmark of apocalyptic worldviews, this aspect of Matthew 24:36-51 emerges as a prominent apocalyptic feature.
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University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Philosophy and Religion
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