Is the practice of seeking the intercession of Rachel admonished in the New Testament?
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The practice is not admonished. In fact, in a 2018 book by Dr. Brant Pitre, who specialized in NT and ancient Judaism and who wrote a few books on the Jewish background of Jesus, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, he made the case that Mary is the new Rachel following the tradition of Rachel as a powerful intercessor.
He made the case that several NT passages connected Mary to Rachel such as:
- The Massacre of the Infants (Matt 2:18 quoting Jeremiah 31:15)
- The Woman with the Sun, Moon, and Stars (Rev 12:1-6 alluding to Joseph's dream in Gen 37:9-11)
- Jesus said to the beloved disciple: "Behold, your mother!" (John 19:25-27) alluding to Jesus's comparison of crucifixion to the sorrow of a woman in childbirth (John 16:21-22 alluding to Gen 35:16-20), which can be interpreted as
Mary spiritually "gives birth" to her second son, the Beloved Disciple, by her interior suffering and "dying" at the foot of the cross. ... In other words, just as Rachel's "soul" departed and she "died" giving birth to Benjamin (Gen 35:18 LXX), so Mary's "soul" is slain by the "sword" of the suffering she experiences at the foot of the cross (Luke 2:35). ...
Perhaps most intriguing of all, if Mary is being depicted as a new Rachel and the apostle John as a kind of "new Benjamin", then this would provide an explanation for the otherwise baffling question of why the author of John's Gospel refers to himself as the "Beloved Disciple".
(source: Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, chapter 7, section "Mary the New Rachel")
A web article from a Russian Orthodox website Two Intercessors: The Theotokos and Rachel has more details from the book about the Beloved Disciple connection to Rachel.
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