
If so, this Christmas may be the perfect time to provide your friends with resources to help them become thoroughly informed about these two passages. A Fresh
Analysis of John 7:53-8:11: With a Tour of the External Evidence is on sale now at
Amazon – available as a Kindle e-book – for 99
cents. The 2015 edition of Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20 is also on sale for 99 cents. Previews of both books can be read at the
Amazon website.

PREFACE
EXTERNAL EVIDENCE:
(1) Early Greek Manuscripts
(2) Early Versions
(3) Lectionaries
(4)
Writings of the Early Church
(5) Marks that Accompany John 7:53-8:11 or 8:3-11
in Some Copies
(6) Notes About John 7:53-8:11 in Some Copies
(7) Variations in
the Location of the Passage
(8) Augustine’s Theory of Excision
INTERNAL EVIDENCE:
(1) Vocabulary
(2) Linguistic Style
(3) The High Number of Variants in
the Pericope Adulterae
(4) The Continuity of John’s Narrative With or Without
the Pericope Adulterae
CONCLUSION
Appendix: A Tour of the External Evidence
In Authentic: The Case for Mark 16:9-20, I advocate the theory that Mark was interrupted as he was
writing Mark 16:8, and his colleagues finished the otherwise unfinished
narrative by attaching a brief summary about Jesus’ post-resurrection
appearances that Mark had already written. Only after the narrative was thus
completed did people begin to make copies of the Gospel of Mark for church-use.
Thus, Mark 16:9-20 should be regarded as inspired, authoritative, canonical
Scripture, just as the last two chapters of Proverbs are regarded as inspired, authoritative,
canonical Scripture even though they were not added by the main author of
Proverbs. Along the way I demonstrate
that many claims that have been spread by commentators and various other
writers (including some Bible-footnote-writers) about this passage and the evidence pertaining to it are incorrect.
PART ONE : EXTERNAL EVIDENCE:
(1) External Evidence from the
100’s
(3) Chapter 3: External Evidence
from the 300’s
(4) External Evidence
from the 400’s
(5) Some External Evidence from the 500’s
and Later
(6) External Evidence with the
Double-Ending
(7) Lectionary Evidence
(8) Phantom Evidence
PART TWO: INTERNAL EVIDENCE
(9) “Ephobounto
Gar”
(10) The Vocabulary and Style of Mark 16:9-20
(11) Evidence of theIndependence of Mark 16:9-20
(10) The Vocabulary and Style of Mark 16:9-20
(11) Evidence of the
PART THREE: PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
(12) Four Theories
about How the Ending was Lost
(13) Why Mark 16:9-20 Was Excised inEgypt
(14) Closing Thoughts
(13) Why Mark 16:9-20 Was Excised in
(14) Closing Thoughts

APPENDICES
(1) The End of Mark and the Synoptic Problem
(2) A Response to Dan Wallace’s Chapter in Perspectives on the Ending of Mark
Also available at Amazon as Kindle e-books, and also 99
cents, are The Letter of James – Translation, Commentary, and Greek Text, and Assorted Essays on New Testament Textual Criticism. Assorted Essays (though marred by typographical
errors and font-glitches where some non-English terms occur) supplies two of my
own essays and eight notable public-domain resources; here is its Table of
Contents:
(1) Equitable Eclecticism: The Future of New
Testament Textual Criticism by James Snapp, Jr. (2010)
(2) The Common Origin of Sinaiticus and
Vaticanus by J. Rendel Harris (1893)
(4) Two Lectures on the Gospels by F. C.
Burkitt (1901)
(5) A Defense of “in the Prophets” in Mark 1:2
by James Snapp, Jr. (2010)
(6) Selections from The Palaeography of Greek Papyri by
Frederic G. Kenyon (1899)
(7) Some Thoughts on the Textual Criticism of
the New Testament by George Salmon (1897)
(8) The Freer Gospels and Shenute of Atripe
by Edgar Goodspeed (1909)
(9) Selections from Praxis in Manuscripts of the Greek Testament
by Charles Sitterly (1898)
(10) The 1897 Oxford Debate on N.T. Textual Criticism, in
American English.
My response to Reza Aslan’s book Zealot is also available as an e-book, for $1.50 – Jesus: Zealous Savior of the World.
No comments:
Post a Comment