last edit 6 July 09 9:30 PM In the introductory material to this class I discussed the "presumed fact" that several versions of the Gospel of Mark circulated in the first century, including: 1. Canonical Mark (the one in the Bible up to 16:8 inclusive, anything after that is later scribal additions). 2. The Gospel of Matthew, which quotes much of canonical Mark verbatim and uses it for the story line. However there is evidence that Matthew's manuscript of Mark may not have been the same... read more
