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Recognising veiled allusions to the Old Testament in the four
Gospels has long contributed to our understanding of the Gospels
message. Nicholas Lunn takes the investigation of allusion a
significant step further in The Gospels Through Old Testament Eyes.
He explores allusions not just in isolated verses, but rather
occurring throughout whole passages, demonstrating that many Gospel
episodes interact with specific Old Testament accounts through an
extended sequence of allusions. Furthermore, his examination is not
restricted to episodes presented by a single Gospel, but includes
allusions distributed across two or more Gospel treatments of the
same event. In The Gospels Through Old Testament Eyes, Lunn offers
a series of self-contained studies that bring to light allusions,
many of them previously unnoted, that affirm the intricate
interweaving of New Testament texts with those of the Old. This
volume will greatly enhance your appreciation of the Gospels'
presentation of Jesus's life and ministry. It will inform and equip
scholars, pastors, preachers, Bible teachers and readers to
appreciate new depths in the Gospels.
Although traditionally accepted by the church down through the
centuries, the longer ending of Mark's Gospel (16:9-20) has been
relegated by modern scholarship to the status of a later appendage.
The arguments for such a view are chiefly based upon the witness of
the two earliest complete manuscripts of Mark, and upon matters of
language and style. This work shows that these primary grounds of
argumentation are inadequate. It is demonstrated that the church
fathers knew the Markan ending from the very earliest days, well
over two centuries before the earliest extant manuscripts. The
quantity of unique terms in the ending is also seen to fall within
the parameters exhibited by undisputed Markan passages. Strong
indications of Markan authorship are found in the presence of
specific linguistic constructions, a range of literary devices, and
the continuation of various themes prominent within the body of the
Gospel. Furthermore, the writings of Luke show that the Gospel of
Mark known to this author contained the ending.Rather than being a
later addition, the evidence is interpreted in terms of a textual
omission occurring at a later stage in transmission, probably in
Egypt during the second century.
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