Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows by Spencer F. Scott;

Author:Spencer, F. Scott;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

In the center of this larger unit, the foreign-female monarch of the South defies ethnic-gender stereotypes and stands out, in contrast to and condemnation of many Israelites of “this evil generation,” as a blessed hearer (akouō) of God’s word (11:27-28, 31)75 and receptor of God’s Wisdom (Sophia [11:31, 49]). Likewise, she also holds center stage with Solomon in the narrower unit of 11:30-32, flanked by Jonah and the male Ninevites.

Jonah/Ninevites (11:30)

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh (tois Nineuitais), so the Son of Man will be to this generation.

Solomon/Queen of South (11:31)

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here!

Jonah/Ninevites (11:32)

The people/males of Nineveh (andres Nineuitai) will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!

Jesus’ opening statement in 11:29 to the sign-seeking crowds that “no sign will be given . . . except the sign of Jonah” leads us to expect the primacy of Jonah’s example in what follows. But Luke’s exclusive focus on the Ninevites’ response to Jonah’s preaching — with no mention of Jonah’s three-day-and-night ordeal foreshadowing the Son of Man’s death-and-resurrection (Matt 12:40) — sandwiched around the queen’s meeting with Solomon (which she initiates!), intimates that her story is equal to, if not greater than, Jonah’s story in importance. This generation must not miss the sign of her impending “rise in judgment” against it.

The framework in Luke 11:29-32 of male-female, Jew-Gentile juxtapositions in prophetic-monarchical contexts recalls similar arrangements in Jesus’ Nazareth speech. But the particular situations of the Sidonian widow and Southern queen are also distinctive at various points, not least pertaining to their geographical and social locations. We now turn to profile the queen more fully in dimensions of time/space and class/character.

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