
Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?
The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Tony Burke(Editor)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 7. January 2013
386 pages
978-1-62189-519-0 (ISBN)
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In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel of Mark written by Mark himself and circulating in Alexandria, Egypt. More than fifty years after its discovery, the origins of this Secret Gospel of Mark remain contentious. Some consider it an authentic witness to an early form of Mark, perhaps even predating canonical Mark. Some claim it is a medieval or premodern forgery created by a monastic scribe. And others argue it is a forgery created by Morton Smith himself. All these positions are addressed in the papers contained in this volume. Nine North American scholars, internationally recognized for their contributions to the study of Secret Mark, met at York University in Toronto, Canada, in April 2011 to examine recent developments in scholarship on the gospel and the letter in which it is found. Their results represent a substantial step forward in determining the origins of this mysterious and controversial text.
List of Contributors:
Scott G. Brown
Tony Burke
Stephen C. Carlson
Bruce Chilton
Craig A. Evans
Paul Foster
Charles W. Hedrick
Peter Jeffery
Allan J. Pantuck
Marvin Meyer
Hershel Shanks
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-519-0 (9781621895190)
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Tony Burke is Associate Professor of Early Christianity at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He is the author of De infantia Iesu evangelien Thomae graece (2010), a critical edition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contributors
- Illustrations and Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction by Tony Burke
- 2. Secret Mark by Charles W. Hedrick
- 3. Provenience by Bruce Chilton
- 4. Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark by Craig A. Evans
- 5. Craig Evans and the Secret Gospel of Mark by Scott G. Brown and Allan J. Pantuck
- 6. Was Morton Smith the Bernie Madoff of the Academy? by Hershel Shanks
- 7. The Young Streaker in Secret and Canonical Mark by Marvin Meyer
- 8. Halfway Between Sabbatai Tzevi and Aleister Crowley by Pierluigi Piovanelli
- 9. A Question of Ability: What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? by Allan J. Pantuck, MD
- 10. Clement's Mysteries and Morton Smith's Magic by Peter Jeffery
- 11. Behind the Seven Veils, I by Scott G. Brown
- 12. The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate
- Appendix I. Can the Academy Protect Itself from One of Its Own? by Stephen C. Carlson
- Appendix 2. The Letter to Theodore
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Texts
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects
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