P. Lewis: The Ending of Mark’s Gospel (book review)
I recently received a thin book (128 pages) from an author in Australia, Dr. Peter E. Lewis, a retired surgeon now about eighty years old. The book is entitled The Ending of Mark’s Gospel: The Key to Understanding the Gospels and Christianity (Second Edition), Zeus Publications 2020. At 128 pages, the book appears to be a print-on-demand from Ingram and is simply formatted with table of contents and no index. In this review I consider only the first fifty pages of the book, which deal with Lewis’ intriguing theory of the abrupt beginning and ending to the Gospel of Mark. The author’s remaining pages I find less persuasive in that they are based on the standard views that the canonical … Continue reading
