Why Did Jesus Suffer in an Olive Garden Called Gethsemane?
Keywords
Passion Week, ancient biography, Jesus’ life narrative
Abstract
The four New Testament Gospels focus the bulk of their narratives of the life of Jesus on the last week of His life, often called the Passion Week. As I have written elsewhere, the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke were all written following the pattern of ancient biography.
In an ancient biography, writers were most concerned with portraying the key emulatable, laudable, and representative characteristics of the life of the hero. Ancient biographies typically did not narrate the details of the hero’s life, but rather focused a few key representative life events, especially on the events leading up to the death of the hero.
Original Publication Citation
Why Did Jesus Suffer in an Olive Garden Called Gethsemane?, June 10, 2019. (Republished on LDS Living on June 11, 2019. #3 article on LDS Living. Republished on Deseret News on June 12, 2019.)
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Halverson, Taylor, "Why Did Jesus Suffer in an Olive Garden Called Gethsemane?" (2019). Faculty Publications. 10020.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/10020
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
College
Marriott School of Business
Department
Marketing
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