"The Linguistic Background to Jesus` Dereliction Cry (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34)"

By Peter J. Williams, in P.J. Williams, A.D. Clarke, P.M. Head and D. Instone-Brewer, eds., The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B.W. Winter on His 65th Birthday (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004) 1-12.

The forms of the dereliction cry in Matthew and Mark ('My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?') are different. This article proposes a historical model that can account for the precise differences in the Aramaic wording between the two gospels and attribute the differences to eyewitness report.