{"id":153,"date":"2011-04-19T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/marks-unfinished-symphony-gospel\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:17:00","slug":"marks-unfinished-symphony-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/marks-unfinished-symphony-gospel.html","title":{"rendered":"Mark&#8217;s Unfinished Symphony Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jesus-Nazareth-independent-historians-teaching\/dp\/0567645177?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jesus of Nazareth: An independent historian's account of his life and teaching\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0567645177&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0567645177\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">At both <a href=\"http:\/\/remnantofgiants.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/19\/caseys-jesus-3-marks-ending\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Remnant of Giants<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxjournals.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/caseys-jesus-3-marks-ending\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReligionBulletin+%28Religion+Bulletin%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion Bulletin<\/a>, Deane Galbraith continues his series blogging through Maurice Casey\u2019s book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jesus-Nazareth-independent-historians-teaching\/dp\/0567645177?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>Jesus of Nazareth: An independent historian\u2019s account of his life and teaching<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0567645177\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">.<\/p>\n<p>The latest post has a doubly-interesting discussion of the ending of Mark\u2019s Gospel. On the one hand, Galbraith presents Casey\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7239246848065101271?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At both Remnant of Giants and Religion Bulletin, Deane Galbraith continues his series blogging through Maurice Casey\u2019s book\u00a0Jesus of Nazareth: An independent historian\u2019s account of his life and teaching. The latest post has a doubly-interesting discussion of the ending of Mark\u2019s Gospel. On the one hand, Galbraith presents Casey\u2019s interesting suggestion that the Gospel of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mark&#039;s Unfinished Symphony Gospel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At both Remnant of Giants and Religion Bulletin, Deane Galbraith continues his series blogging through Maurice Casey&#039;s book&nbsp;Jesus of Nazareth: An\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/marks-unfinished-symphony-gospel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mark&#039;s Unfinished Symphony Gospel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At both Remnant of Giants and Religion Bulletin, Deane Galbraith continues his series blogging through Maurice Casey&#039;s book&nbsp;Jesus of Nazareth: An\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/marks-unfinished-symphony-gospel.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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