Tag: longer ending of Mark
Elijah in the Book of Mormon
Giuseppe Angeli, Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire, c. 1740/1755. From the National Gallery of Art. I am increasingly touched by the way in which subtle elements from…
The Miraculous Feeding in 3 Nephi 20: Intensified Over Mark, Who Intensifies an Elisha Theme
In preparing my recent paper on the longer ending of Mark and its implications for the Book of Mormon (see Part 1 and the newly published Part 2), one of…
Bible Scholar Breaks Ranks and Reverses His Views on the Ending of Mark Based on Evidence
The progress of scholarship can be painfully slow when established paradigms are wrong. Even when abundant data and logic support a new way of looking at things, old paradigms can…
The Longer Ending of Mark and the Book of Mormon, Part 5: Implications for 3 Nephi
In my previous post, Part 4 of my discussion of the disputed ending of the Gospel of Mark and its relationship to the Book of Mormon, we looked at the…
The Longer Ending of Mark and the Book of Mormon, Part 4: Internal Evidence Including the Exodus Theme
Recently we surveyed a small fraction of the external evidence supporting what is called the “longer ending” of Mark, our current Mark 16:9-20, which is viewed by many Bible scholars…
The Longer Ending of Mark and the Book of Mormon, Part 3: More External Evidence
In my previous post, “The Longer Ending of Mark and the Book of Mormon, Part 2: External Evidence for Authenticity,” we looked at some of the evidence from early Christian…
The Longer Ending of Mark, Part 2: External Evidence for Authenticity
Following up on my previous post on the Book of Mormon and Mark 16 (“Longer Ending of Mark, Part 1“), I would like to review a portion of the external…
The Book of Mormon Versus the Consensus of Scholars: Surprises from the Disputed Longer Ending of Mark (The Longer Ending of Mark, Part 1)
One of the most effective and interesting arguments against the Book of Mormon is that it quotes from the disputed ending of the Gospel of Mark. In Mormon 9:22-25, Mormon…
