Endnote 5 – Heavens Torn Open

See S. Motyer, “The Rending of the Veil: A Markan Pentecost,” New Testament Studies (NTS) 33 (1987), pp. 155–157. See also Elizabeth Malbon, Narrative Space and Mythic Meaning in Mark (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986), p. 187, n. 93; Howard Jackson, “The Death of Jesus in Mark, and the Miracle of the Cross,” NTS 33 (1987), pp. 23, 27, 31. For earlier scholars who suggested at least tentatively the possibility of a link between the tearing of the heavens and the tearing of the Temple veil, see the references in Jackson, “Death of Jesus”, p. 36, n. 22. For an argument against there being a connection between Mark 1:10 and Mark 15:38, with additional references to earlier scholarship, see Lentzen-Deis, Die Taufe Jesu, pp. 280–281.