![]() ![]() If they drink anything poisonous, it will not hurt them. 18 They will pick up snakes with their hands. 17 These signs will be associated with those who believe: they will throw out demons in my name. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever doesn’t believe will be condemned. 15 He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to every creature. Jesus criticized their unbelief and stubbornness because they didn’t believe those who saw him after he was raised up. 14 Finally he appeared to the eleven while they were eating. 13 When they returned, they reported it to the others, but they didn’t believe them. 11 But even after they heard the news, they didn’t believe that Jesus was alive and that Mary had seen him.ġ2 After that he appeared in a different form to two of them who were walking along in the countryside. 10 She went and reported to the ones who had been with him, who were mourning and weeping. Smith and Landau dive deep into the life and work of Morton Smith and the question of whether he discovered an alternative history of the Gospel of Mark, bringing to light exciting new information and charting a responsible and compelling course through the debate.[[ 9 After Jesus rose up early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. “Smith and Landau’s Secret Gospel of Mark expertly tackles one of the great modern controversies in biblical studies, along with perhaps the most controversial biblical scholar of the last hundred years. “Written with the verve, pace, and accuracy of a true-crime story, The Secret Gospel of Mark proposes a new, powerfully persuasive interpretation of this mysterious text-now maybe misplaced, quarantined, or destroyed.”-John Dominic Crossan, DePaul University “In their reexamination of one of the most controversial textual discoveries of the past few generations, Smith and Landau offer a compelling new theory for the text’s origin, as well as a fascinating study of manuscript transmission, libraries, and scholarly culture.”-Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Amherst College It is difficult to imagine a more expertly researched or more accessible account of this scholarly puzzle.”-Robyn Walsh, University of Miami Systematically, thoughtfully, boldly, The Secret Gospel of Mark sets aside generations of speculation and innuendo. ![]() In this fascinating work, Smith and Landau present the realities and misconceptions surrounding not only the now-lost manuscript but also its brilliant, enigmatic, and acerbic discoverer, Morton Smith. Instead, this account is intimately bound up with the history of Mar Saba, one of the oldest monasteries in the Christian world. ![]() Landau enter into the controversy surrounding this document and argue that the Secret Gospel of Mark is neither a first-century alternative gospel nor a twentieth-century forgery by the scholar who announced its discovery. In recent years, an influential group of researchers has alleged that no Secret Gospel or letter of Clement existed in antiquity, and that the manuscript that Morton Smith “found” was a modern forgery-created by none other than Smith himself. This excerpt recounts a story of Jesus’s apparent sexual encounter with a young, resurrected disciple. A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in Christian history In 1958, at the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Saba just outside Jerusalem, Columbia University scholar Morton Smith claimed to have unearthed a letter written by the Christian philosopher Clement of Alexandria and containing an excerpt from a previously unknown version of the canonical Gospel of Mark.
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