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Article: The Mutilation of Mark's Gospel
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
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- December 1, 2004
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The Mutilation of Mark's Gospel. By N. Clayton Croy. Nashville: Abingdon, 2003, 230 pp., $20.00 paper.
Did Mark originally end at 16:8, or not? And what about the awkward beginning of Mark's Gospel? clayton Croy posits that "through some mishap, the Second Gospel lost its original beginning and ending not too many years after its composition" (p. 12). Croy organizes his work around three independent yet interlocking proposals related to this thesis, giving separate treatments of the ending of Mark, the beginning of Mark, and the original or early format for Mark's Gospel. After explaining his thesis in the introduction, the ending of Mark is considered in chapters 2 through 5, the beginning ...