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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, DC PARKER wrote:

> I've just been telling a class about the endings of Mark, and stressing 
> the significance of the Sinaitic and Curetonian Syriac MSS, and 
> Bobbiensis of the Old Latin MSS as three of the most significant 
> witnesses; not to mention the Armenian which, though derived from 
> the Greek via a Syriac intermediary, is an important witness to the 
> text of Mark.  Remove the versional evidence, and the Greek MSS 
> provide a rather misleading picture of the history of the text.

I consider it significant that among the two Old Syriac traditions one
contains the long ending of Mark and the other omits such.  What
conclusion then should be drawn regarding that ending within the Syriac
church?

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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Professor of Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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