The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570972036 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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--From the Foreword by Elaine Pagels, author, The Gnostic Gospels. The Secret Gospel …invites a wide community of readers toevaluate for themselves the provocative-and fundamental-questions it raises
The Secret Gospel gives the first real evidence of the method by which Jesus of Nazareth initiated his disciples into the esoteric practices of his teaching, making this a very important book for the history of humankind. As exciting as the most suspenseful adventure story, Professor Smith's book is a lively and readable account of the discovery and unraveling of some of Christianity's most intriguing mysteries.. What he found was no routine corroboration of New Testament history, but a precious fragment of a second-century document that w
"Jesus perform the Mystery rites" according to Rob S. This is my second reading of this book and I'm pleased to say this edition has additional information of the where-abouts of the illicit manuscript. The book is about a short hand written copy taken from the Secret Gospel of Mark and found in a monastery library about the middle of the last century by Dr. Morton Smith. The Secret Gospel of Mark is hypothesized to be a fuller, more complete version of the Gospel of Mark that we have tod. A Curious Document and a Bizarro Interpretation. "The Secret Gospel" is the short version of Morton Smith's discovery and subsequent interpretation of fragments of an alternative Markian gospel whose authenticity is hotly debated. The long version is "Clement of Alexandria and the Secret Gospel of Mark", written by Smith and published by Harvard University Press in 1973. Morton Smith was a distinguished classicist and biblical scholar who, while cataloging manuscripts in the library . H. F. Gibbard said A cautionary tale. This is Bible scholar Morton Smith's story of the most controversial and shocking discovery in Biblical studies history. It is also probably a hoax, along the lines of "The Hitler Diaries" or the purported Howard Hughes interviews. Knowing that the book is almost certainly a fraud makes reading it a very strange experience. The informed reader stands one level removed from the otherwise well-written text, wondering what Smith was think