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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>
  • To: Kata Markon <gmark AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [GMark] Jesus' sacrifice vs. the High Priest
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:51:39 -0500

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George Patton wrote:

> Vince Endris wrote:
>
> >GMark list,
> >
> >I have recently been reading on the second temple and cult.? It seems that
> >there was a widespread dislike of the priests - that they were no longer
> >legitimate and, as with the DDS, that they were profaning the temple.? This
> >might have been the historical Jesus' reason for overturning the tables
> >(Sanders).? It struck me that Mark having the vale tear (I am assuming he
> >meant the inner vale) might be suggesting that the atoning sacrifice
> >offered
> >by the high priest was not sufficient but Jesus' was.? This might account
> >for the popularity of nascent Christianity.? Is this a valid argument for
> >what Mark is trying to say?? Do you know of anywhere else I might look for
> >evidence of this interpretation?
> >
> >Vince Endris
> >
> >
>
> I think that the tearing of the temple vale is a literary reference to
> Mark 14:62-64.? The priest tore his robes (from top to bottom) and said
> "blasphemy" at the wrong time.? And in Mark 15:38 God tore his robe(from
> top to bottom), which suggest that God was saying , "blasphemy" at the
> right time.

Actually it's a reference to the Baptism story and the rending of the heavens
spoken of there and it's allusion to Is. 63

Jeffrey
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