Kata Markon

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>]

Eric Eve wrote:

> Of course this alternative proposal is not nearly so well thought through as
> Jeffrey's reading, but I thought I'd float it to see if anyone thinks it has
> any merit - or to give people something to shoot down!
>

You might wish to know that the reading you are suggesting was previously
advanced by Loisy (_L'Évangile selon Marc_ [Paris: E. Nourry, 1912], p. 415) 
and
was revived by J. Hering (`Zwei exegetische Probleme in der Perikope von 
Jesus in
Gethsemane" in _Neotestamentica and Patristica: Eine Freundesgabe, Hernn
Professor Dr. Oscar Cullmann zu seinem 60. Geburtstag uberreicht_ [Leiden: 
Brill,
1962], pp. 64-69, esp. pp. 64-65).

Both think that  that originally Jesus told his disciples, "Pray that I do not
enter into peirasmos," and that the "I" was dropped because of scandal the 
idea
of Jesus asking for prayer for himself.

Brown, in his DoM, rejects this by noting that "There is no textual support 
for
this theory; there is no other example of Jesus asking his disciples to pray 
for
him; and the whole idea is unnecessary" (p. 161, n. 17):

Yours,

Jeffrey



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