Where Does Mark End? Mark 16:9–20 and the Price of an Abrupt Gospel
A reader reaches Mark 16:8 and finds the women fleeing the tomb. They tremble. They are amazed. They say nothing to anyone because they are afraid. Then, in…
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Two Endings, One Received Gospel: Eusebius, Jerome, and Burgon’s Ledger of Mark 16
Eusebius and Jerome cannot be suppressed in a defense of Mark 16:9–20; they report copies which lacked the ending. But neither Father simply declares the passage spurious, and…
Open record →The Mark Irenaeus Knew: Mark 16:9–20 and the Second-Century Church
Irenaeus does not merely allude to Christ’s ascension. He expressly says that Mark, near the conclusion of his Gospel, wrote Mark 16:19. This second-century witness does not answer…
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The 99 Percent Argument Is Not a Majority-Text Rule
TBS’s appeal to the overwhelming transmission of Mark 16 is a powerful internal criticism of critical-text weighting. It becomes inconsistent only if it is made an absolute counting…
Open record →Mark 16: Printed, Bracketed, or Rejected?
Modern critical editions usually print Mark 16:9–20, but their double brackets identify it as an early addition rather than the earliest text. TBS should describe that fact accurately;…
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