The Authentication of Missionaries and Their Message in the Longer Ending of Mark.

WUNT 2.112. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000.
xix + 530 pages. ISBN 9783161472435 (link to publisher’s homepage; link to Google Books)

Abstract:

In the first half of the second century, Mark 16:9–20 was appended to the Gospel of Mark. Whereas scholars have examined the relation of Mark 16:9–20 to Mark 1:1–16:8 and asked whether Mark wrote these final verses, this study explores the passage’s distinct witness to the use and interpretation of gospel traditions. Attention is also given to the striking claim that, while believers are proclaiming the good news, the ascended Lord will enable them to perform miraculous signs. That expectation is compared with accounts of miracles, especially in the context of mission, in the New Testament, in apocryphal acts of the apostles, and in second- and third-century Christian apologists. The final two chapters examine the distinctive signs of picking up snakes and drinking a deadly substance with impunity in the light of literary and pictographic evidence from the pre-classical Minoan civilization, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and the early Byzantine and Medieval periods.

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