Work in progress – numerous citations and references to be added.
Criticism of Mark: Scholar Quotes
Bruce, F.F.. The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (p. 47). Kingsley Books. Kindle Edition.
As appears from the textual evidence, the original ending of this Gospel may have been lost at a very early date, and the narrative breaks off short at 16:8. (The verses which follow in our Bibles are a later appendix.)
F. F. Bruce. The Canon of Scripture (Kindle Locations 1202-1206). Kindle Edition.
On Mark’s record Papias speaks somewhat defensively, as though he knew of criticisms that had been voiced against it, especially on the ground that its order was defective. To this Papias replies that Mark did not set out to write an orderly account: his aim was to record in writing whatever Peter had to tell of the works and words of Jesus; and Peter simply mentioned from time to time those things which the circumstances of the moment required. In what he wrote down Mark made no mistake: in order, as in matter, he adhered to what Peter said.
F. F. Bruce. The Canon of Scripture (Kindle Locations 2613-2614). Kindle Edition.
As for Mark, the tradition that his record is based (in part at least) on the preaching of Peter may have a foundation in fact, but no appeal is made to Peter’s authority in the course of the record.
Criticism of Mark: Book Excerpts
The beginnings of Gospel story, a historico-critical inquiry into the sources and structure of the Gospel according to Mark
Bacon, Benjamin Wisner, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1909
Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1860 – 1932) was an American theologian. He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1881 and Yale Divinity School in 1884. After serving in pastorates at Old Lyme, Connecticut (1884–1889), and at Oswego, New York (1889–1896), he was made an instructor in New Testament Greek at Yale Divinity School and became in 1897 professor of New Testament criticism and exegesis. The degrees D.D., Litt.D., and LL.D. were conferred upon him.
Archive Book Link: https://archive.org/details/beginningsofgos00baco
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The Gospel of Mark – Its Composition and Date
Bacon, Benjamin Wisner, Yale University Pressv. Press, 1925
Benjamin Wisner Bacon (1860 – 1932) was an American theologian. He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1881 and Yale Divinity School in 1884. After serving in pastorates at Old Lyme, Connecticut (1884–1889), and at Oswego, New York (1889–1896), he was made an instructor in New Testament Greek at Yale Divinity School and became in 1897 professor of New Testament criticism and exegesis. The degrees D.D., Litt.D., and LL.D. were conferred upon him.
Archive Book Link:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gospel_of_Mark/QCdWAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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Mark the Evangelist : studies on the redaction history of the Gospel
Willi Marxsen, Nashville : Abingdon Press, 1969
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Willi Marxsen was born on September 1, 1919 in the northern German city of Kiel . Between 1945 and 1948 he studied Protestant theology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel .
Marxsen obtained his habilitation in 1954 with a work entitled Der Evangelist Markus. Studien zur Redaktionsgeschichte des Evangeliums (Evangelist Mark . Studies on the history of the redaction of his Gospel ). In 1956 , he became a professor of New Testament at Kirchliche Hochschule Bethel . In 1961, Marxsen accepted a professorship at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster , becoming head of the department of New Testament propaedeutics and theology . He worked here until his retirement in 1984 .
Willi Marxsen is the author of the term Redaktionsgeschichte ( lit. history of the editorial office or criticism of the editorial office ). This term usually refers to the study of individual editorial layers of New Testament texts. According to Marxsen, the current version of the New Testament writings is the work of many editors who, guided by their own theological views, composed, revised and supplemented individual texts. Willi Marxsen, Hans Conzelmann (1915-1989) and Günther Bornkamm (1905-1990) are rightly considered to be the pioneers of editorial criticism within the New Testament historical-critical exegesis.
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