L'Évangile du Sauveur, Hébreux 5, 7 et la prière de supplication en quête d'autres traditions sur la prière au Mont des Oliviers

Abstract

The Gospel of the Savior 45-59 relates a not well known interpretation of Jesus' prayer on the Mount of Olives, as an intercession for the people of Israel. Such an interpretation is known by Origen, Jerome and Epiphanius. This article argues that this tradition allows one to consider in a new way the signification of û requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears ý in He 5.7. Both passages use the topos of an intense prayer of supplication, efficient and offering a space to the expression of emotions. Evoked by Justin Martyr and Origen as from û Hebraic ý origin, this kind of prayer becomes specific in the frame of the Judeo-Hellenism, when it is associated to the Greek terminology of the û supplicant ý (iÉ ke` tyq): it testifies of a point of contact between Jewish and Hellenistic cultures. The conclusion underlines that the Gospel of the Savior is at the same time vector of a û cultural memory ý and of a û cultural forgetting ý of the prayer of supplication evoked in He 5.7.