Mark’s Unfinished Symphony Gospel

At both Remnant of Giants and Religion Bulletin, Deane Galbraith continues his series blogging through Maurice Casey’s book Jesus of Nazareth: An independent historian’s account of his life and teaching.

The latest post has a doubly-interesting discussion of the ending of Mark’s Gospel. On the one hand, Galbraith presents Casey’s interesting suggestion that the Gospel of Mark is an unfinished draft that was never completed. On the other hand, he argues against Casey for the conclusion that the ending of Mark was deliberately excised because it disagreed with later authoritative traditions.