What, if anything, does this have to do<\/a> with the supposedly first-century manuscript fragment of the Gospel of Mark that Dan Wallace has been talking about?<\/p>\nI have no idea, as yet, because when something appears on Facebook, like an ossuary appearing on the antiquities market, lots of questions are left as yet unanswered.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Facebook friend asked me about this image earlier today, and when I asked about its source, I received no reply. Someone else, however, mentioned that the infamous D. M. Murdock as having already been discussing it online, making me even more suspicious. But a couple of bibliobloggers have posted the picture, and so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[332,2380,2406,3450,4100,7854,12437],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-gospel-of-mark","tag-acharya-s","tag-d-m-murdock","tag-dan-wallace","tag-first-century","tag-gospel-of-mark","tag-mythicist","tag-textual-criticism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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