Bible Review

Cf. Mark 10:27.

David Daube, “Death as a Release in the Bible,” Novum Testamentum 5 (1962), pp. 96–98. This study also evokes Moses (Numbers 11:15), Elijah (1 Kings 19:4) and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:14–18).

J. Warren Halloran, The Synoptic Gethsemane, Analecta Gregoriana 191 (Rome: Gregorian University, 1973), p. 207.

It is paraphrased “My sorrow is so great that it almost overwhelms me” in Christopher S. Mann, Mark, Anchor Bible 27 (New York: Doubleday, 1986), p. 587.

Stanley’s translation (Jesus in Gethsemane, p. 108).

The question is raised by Stanley (Jesus in Gethsemane, p. 140), but not really answered.

So, rightly, David Stanley, Jesus in Gethsemane, p. 134. Brown reluctantly concedes that Jesus’ action compleements what is said of his distraught state, but then says that Matthew “slightly softens Mark’s picture of Jesus’ distress” (Death of the Messiah, p. 165). In fact, Matthew changes the picture completely (as does Luke) by substituting a controlled action for an uncontrolled one.

For description and dating, see Kay Prag, Jerusalem, Blue Guide (London: Black, 1989), pp. 247–51.

David Ussishkin, The Village of Silwan (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1993).