The papers from the Mark 16 conference around this time last year have now been published in the latest issue of Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin. I haven't had a chance to read them yet myself but look forward to.
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The Transmission of Mark’s Endings in Different Traditions
and Languages
Papers presented at the International Workshop, Lausanne, 2–3 June 2022; ed. by Claire Clivaz, Mina Monier, and Dan Batovici
Introductory Essay
- A Multilingual Turn: Introducing the ‘MARK16’ COMSt Bulletin (Claire Clivaz)
Greek and Latin Traditions
- Physical Discontinuities in the Transitions between the Gospels: Reassessing the Ending of Mark in Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrinus (Patrick Andrist)
- The Text and Paratext of Family 1 in Mark 16 (Tommy
Wasserman)
- ʻAccording to the Egyptiansʼ: Mark 16 in GA 72 (Mina
Monier)
- Framing Mark: Reading Mark 16 in a Catena Manuscript (Anthony
P. Royle and Garrick V. Allen)
- Was Salome at the Markan Tomb? Another Ending to Mark’s Gospel (Elizabeth Schrader Polczer)
- ‘The End of the Beginning’: Mark’s Longer Ending (16:9–20) and the Adaptation of the Markan Storyline (James A.
Kelhoffer)
- The Ending of Mark in Tatian’s Diatessaron (Nicholas
J. Zola)
- Mark 16 and the Eusebian Apparatus: Greek and Latin Solutions (W. Andrew Smith)
Other Languages
- The Shorter Ending of the Gospel of Mark in the Coptic Versions (Anne Boud’hors and Sofía Torallas Tovar)
- The Endings of the Gospel of Mark in Syriac Witnesses (David GK Taylor)
- Mc 16 dans les manuscrits arabes du Sinaï — Réflexions de méthode pour leur utilization en critique textuelle. Diversity of versions, rubriques, langues sources, variantes fausses et vraies (Jean G. Valentin)
- The Endings of Mark in Ethiopian Translation and Transmission (Curt Niccum)
- Mark 16 in the Persian Harmony of the Gospels (Ali
B. Langroudi)
- The Displaced Endings of Mark in Armenian Biblical Manuscripts (Dan Batovici)
- Mark 16:9–20 in Armenian Medieval Literature: A Commentary by Barseł Maškeworc’i (Armine Melkonyan)
- Un essai de panorama de Marc 16 dans la tradition georgienne (Bernard Outtier)
History of the Reception
- Cerinthus and the Gospel of Mark: The Priority of the Longer Ending (Joan E. Taylor)
- Trajectories in the History of Textual Scholarship on Mark’s Endings: A Reconsideration (Jan Krans and An-Ting Yi)
- Mark 16 from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Why Were the Doubts not Expressed Earlier? (Regis Burnet)