TY - JOUR
TI - Jacob’s ladder as a cross
AU - Myszor, Wincenty
TI - Jacob’s ladder as a cross
AB - 
	In Judeo-Christian theology, as in Hellenistic Christianity, the cross of Jesus was a fundamental problem. Until the time of Constantine in the Imperial community it was a sign of disgrace. For Christians the cross was a sign of salvation. The theological problem was caused by the inclusion of the cross as a positive symbol in a general and religious sense. In Judeo-Christian theology a method of typology was used which was known also in Jewish exegesis. The cross as a symbol of salvation was predicted among others by ”Jacob’s ladder” (cf. Genesis 28,12). Christians understood it as a cosmic cross on which Logos (the Son of God) had descended to earth, and as a path to salvation for people ascending to heaven. From ”Jacob’s ladder” only certain details were chosen for the
	exegesis: ”the wood of the ladder/cross”, the motif of descent and ascent. In this way the typology of the ”ladder of the cross” allowed the meaning of the cross as a symbol of the shame of Jesu’s death sentence to win out
VL - 2010
IS - Voumel 43
PY - 2010
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 29
EP - 34
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/drabina-jakubowa-jako-krzyz