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1. c. 70 CE

   The Gospel of Mark

   Anonymous (attributed to Mark)

   Early Christian. Roman Empire. written in Koine Greek.

   The earliest surviving gospel, a terse account of the ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus, including the beheading of John the Baptist.

   What it handed down

   To Three Tales (Trois Contes) (1877)

   Direct source, well documented.

   'Herodias' expands the account in Mark 6:14-29 of Herod's feast, Salome's dance and the beheading of John the Baptist. Flaubert supplied historical detail but kept the gospel's sequence of events.

   To The New Testament (Tyndale's translation)

   Direct source, well documented.

   Tyndale translated Mark and the other Gospels from Erasmus's printed Greek text rather than from the Latin. His English Mark keeps the abrupt, paratactic 'and... and' storytelling of the Greek.

   To The Vulgate

   Direct source, well documented.

   At Pope Damasus's request Jerome revised the Old Latin Gospels against Greek manuscripts around 383. His Latin Mark became part of the Vulgate.

   Where it came from

   This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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