Comments on: The THGNT and the “Longer Ending” of Mark https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/2022/01/16/the-thgnt-and-the-longer-ending-of-mark/ Greeky, geeky ramblings Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Matthew https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/2022/01/16/the-thgnt-and-the-longer-ending-of-mark/#comment-20 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:32:24 +0000 https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/?p=886#comment-20 In reply to mgg.

Neat! Thanks!

]]> By: mgg https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/2022/01/16/the-thgnt-and-the-longer-ending-of-mark/#comment-19 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:50:47 +0000 https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/?p=886#comment-19 In reply to Matthew.

Thanks for your contributions! I’ve updated the post with a new section containing some of these resources that were mentioned here in the comments.

]]> By: Matthew https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/2022/01/16/the-thgnt-and-the-longer-ending-of-mark/#comment-18 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:16:04 +0000 https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/?p=886#comment-18 In reply to mgg.

Thanks for those links! The first link in the second paragraph seems to be a page from E. W. Bullinger’s Companion Bible, so it should be fairly factual–though maybe out of date–even if the rest of the website may or may not be as sound.

]]> By: mgg https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/2022/01/16/the-thgnt-and-the-longer-ending-of-mark/#comment-17 Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:47:21 +0000 https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/?p=886#comment-17 In reply to Matthew.

Good points, Matthew. I agree that making it look a bit more like a “note” rather than a heading would have been helpful. Thanks for the link to Samuel Tregelles’ thoughts on Mark 16:9-20! Here’s a link directly to an online copy of the print book for anyone else who may be interested in reading it: https://archive.org/details/anaccountofthepr00treguoft/page/246/mode/2up

This whole issue is quite the fascinating (and sometimes polarizing) discussion! I bookmarked this summary of the topic a while back when I came across it: https://www.therain.org/appendixes/app168.html I don’t necessarily endorse this site or its views, but it seems to be a reasonable look at the evidence. Another resource I just came across more recently is https://mark16.sib.swiss/, which has a wealth of materials, including mss evidence and a long list of articles and books, as well as videos on the topic. Another page that gathers a lot of resources together in one place is James Snapp Jr’s page on Mark 16.

]]> By: Matthew https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/2022/01/16/the-thgnt-and-the-longer-ending-of-mark/#comment-16 Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:50:19 +0000 https://www.mrgreekgeek.com/?p=886#comment-16 Interesting note about an old phenomenon. I wish the TH editors had put it into smaller type, as a note, rather than to make it all-caps, as if it’s more important than the surrounding Bible text.
Since the THGNT started with the text of Samuel Tregelles, it might be appropriate to read his 1834 conclusion about these verses https://www.thetextofthegospels.com/2022/01/samuel-tregelles-and-mark-169-20.html .
There is evidence for the longer ending as far back as AD 200, referred to by Irenaeus (202), Tertullian (220), and Hippolytus (235). On the other hand, the abrupt ending also has early evidence, possibly as far back as Origen in AD 253. Tregelles might have been pretty close to the mark, and perhaps right on it, when he compared the last 12 verses of Mark 16 with the last chapter of Deuteronomy.

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