Download or read book Marking the End: Sense and Absence in the Gospel of Mark written by J. Lee Magness and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Lee Magness offers a fresh literary analysis of the suspended ending to the second gospel. In the course of Mark's study, the author describes how open endings have been interpreted by modern literary theory and, secondly, how such endings have been used in ancient literary and biblical texts. A close rereading of Mark concludes the study, in which Magness offers the thesis that Mark's sense of absenceÓ encourages his readers to make sense of that absence for themselves in a positive and powerful way.