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Note from The Poetry Of St Mark by H Gardner

In this latter book he reopened the question of the ending of St. Mark's Gospel and put forward rather different arguments from those I have summarized from The Glass of Vision . He also modified his first account of St. Mark's 'cyclic imagination' when he came to treat St. Mark with St. Matthew. In a volume in memory of Dr. Lightfoot, Studies in the Gospels , edited by D. Nineham (1955), there are various essays applying these methods to other problems. Dr. Farrer's essay 'On Dispensing with Q ' can be found here; and also Dr. Dodd's application of the form-critical method to the narratives of the appearances of the Risen Christ. It is only fair to say that in the chapter referred to in the Bampton Lectures Dr. Farrer was only demonstrating the kind of arguments which should be employed in discussing whether a work has a proper conclusion. Later, he argues that a final concluding sentence has been lost.