The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to St. Mark

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By Dean John William Burgon (1813-1888). Dean Burgon settles the question of the inclusion of Mark 16:9-20 once and for all, demonstrating that the methodology of modern textual criticism fails to hold up when examined against the last twelve verses of Mark. Beginning with external evidence, he examines hundreds of cursive and uncial Greek manuscripts which date at least from the fourth century, ten early Bible versions which date from the second to the sixth centuries, the individual writings of 19 “early Church Fathers” from all over the then-known world who wrote between the early second to the mid sixth centuries, and all known copies of the venerable Lectionary of the East. Then he turns to the internal evidence, or the writing style of St. Mark himself, and compares the verses in question to Mark’s remaining Gospel, with particular attention given to the parallelism found in the first twelve verses of chapter 1. Facsimile Paperback. 352 Pages.