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Document Details : Title: Dying with Power Subtitle: Mark 15,39 from Ancient to Modern Interpretation Author(s): EUBANK, Nathan Journal: Biblica Volume: 95 Issue: 2 Date: 2014 Pages: 247-268 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.95.2.3186112 Abstract : This article examines the reception-history of Mark 15,39 to shed new light on this pivotal and disputed verse. Mark's earliest known readers emended the text to clarify the centurion's feelings about Jesus and to explain how the centurion came to faith. Copyists inserted references to Jesus' final yell around the same time that patristic commentators were claiming that this yell was a miracle that proved Jesus' divinity, an interpretation which was enshrined in the Byzantine text and the Vulgate. The article concludes that a 'sarcastic' reading is a more adequate description of 15,39 as found in B, NA28 etc. |
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