New elements on Mark's shorter ending in Codex Bobbiensis and beyond
Friday 16th October 2020, 5.30pm (CET time) - Online, Duke NT colloquia. This lecture presents the Swiss National Science Foundation MARK16 project (2018-2023), with its first results and its virtual research environment, https://mark16.sib.swiss. Secondly, it will summarize the main results of a forthcoming ZNT 2021 article about the Latin Codex Bobiensis, or Codex k, or VL 1, or G.VII.15. Of amb...iguous reputation, this manuscript ends Mark with a shorter ending slightly different from the Greek one, with a puzzling expression et qui cum puero erant – “and those who were with the boy”. The MARK16 project has chosen to transcribe this expression by et qui cum puero erant, whereas its editing presents et qui cum Petro erant, as the lecture will argue. Last but not least, the enquiry highlights an alternative tradition, present in some versions of the shorter ending: Peter’s companions – and not the women – are reporting briefly instructions before the final apparition of Jesus himself. This finding fosters further the inquiry about Mark endings, by drawing the scholarly attention to VL 1, a manuscript contemporaneous of GA 01 and GA 03.