Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20: 2016 Edition
Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20: 2016 Edition
Author: James Snapp Jr.
Publication Date: May 8, 2016
ASIN: B01EU1OR9O
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Case-Mark-9-20-2016-ebook/dp/B01EU1OR9O/
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Freddy Castaneda commented
Everything you think you know about Mark 16:9-20 is wrong. But there's something you can do about that: read "Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20." Confronting and testing some claims made by the late Bruce Metzger and other commentators, James Snapp Jr. maintains that verses 9-20 of chapter 16 were included in the original text of the Gospel of Mark when copies first began to be made for church-use. A summary of the case (with special attention to Vaticanus and Sinaiticus) is followed by a detailed review of external evidence from the 100's-500's and beyond. Various urban legends (such as the "asterisks and obeli" claim) are shown to be false. Internal evidence is also covered, with a refutation of the "pastiche" theory of the origin of the passage. A supplemental chapter offers a critique of part of a 2008 book about this passage.
"Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20," newly updated for 2016, is essential reading for anyone who desires to be fully informed on the New Testament's most significant text-critical controversy.