»Vater, in deine Hände übergebe ich meinen Geist«. Das Kreuzeswort Jesu in Lk 23,46 und die Rezeption von Ps 31,6 im frühen Judentum und Christentum

The last words of Jesus in Luke 23:46 are not – as often stated in secondary literature – the night prayer of a pious Jew, but build upon a reading of Ps 31:6, which was wide-spread in Early Judaism: In Jewish literature contemporary to the Gospel of Luke, Ps 31:6 was generally associated with the death of the righteous one, who in that moment, especially when persecuted, handed over his soul to God. Ps 31:6 was thereby also interpreted in the light of a dichotomous anthropology; giving the concept of a general body/soul dichotomy a biblical foundation was one of the functions of this verse.