Primary source
Rashi on Deuteronomy 21:23
Rashi’s medieval commentary on the hanged man as qilelat Elohim, read as a degradation of God, in whose image a human being is made.
- Author
- Rashi
- Publisher
- Sefaria
- Tradition
- Medieval Jewish commentary
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
Citation
Rashi on Deuteronomy 21:23, translated by M. Rosenbaum and A. M. Silbermann, Sefaria, accessed October 6, 2026.
Where this source is used
- The Messiah cannot die before reigningThe Tanakh and the rabbis both speak of an anointed one who suffers or is killed. The Christian claim joins suffering and reign in one person, and rests on the resurrection.
- The resurrection as messianic vindicationA crucified Messiah looked like a contradiction to Jesus' own followers. They read his resurrection as God overturning that verdict, and argued it from the Psalms and Isaiah.