Lost Gospels: “Secret Mark”
The Nation magazine has an interesting article this week about “secret” passages allegedly deleted from the canonical Gospel of Mark. We may never know for sure if these passages were authentic or an elaborate hoax. My fellow theology geeks will enjoy the article, Gospel Secrets: The Biblical Controversies of Morton Smith, by Anthony Grafton.
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Labels: Lost Gospels
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 8:43 AM
4 Comments:
Very interesting indeed. Thanks for posting the link.
This is an amazing piece of work.It makes my non scholar head spin.
It will not fit on a bumper sticker.
Wow. The last time I read about Secret Mark, it seemed to be largely settled that it's a forgery. (How convenient the only evidence it exists is some very blurry photos taken by Smith, and no one else has ever seen it.)
But the correspondence mentioned here does open up the lid to more debate. Interesting. And frustrating.
Guy Stroumsa, Pines, Flusser, and others have also seen it.
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