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Gospel Hoax

Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark [Paperback]

by Stephen C. Carlson

    • Author

      Stephen C. Carlson

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Baylor University Press

    • Published

      November 2005

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      "Secret Mark" first became known to modern scholarship in 1958 when a newly hired assistant professor at Columbia University in New York by the name of Morton Smith visited the monastery of Mar Saba near Jerusalem and photographed its fragments. "Secret Mark" was announced on the heels of many spectacular discoveries of ancient manuscripts in the Near East, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi gnostic corpus in the late 1940s, and promised to be just as revolutionary. "Secret Mark" presents what appears to be a valuable, albeit fragmentary, witness to early Christian traditions, traditions that might shed light on Jesus' most intimate behaviour. In this book, Stephen C Carlson uses state of the art science to demonstrate that "Secret Mark" was an elaborate hoax created by Morton Smith. Carlson's discussion places Smith's trick alongside many other hoaxes before probing the reasons why so many scholars have been taken in by it.

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      • Author

        Stephen C. Carlson

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Baylor University Press

      • Published

        November 2005

      • Weight

        209g

      • Page Count

        170

      • Dimensions

        126 x 203 x 15 mm

      • ISBN

        9781932792485

      • ISBN-10

        1932792481

      • Eden Code

        1188151

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      • Author/Creator: Stephen C. Carlson

      • ISBN: 9781932792485

      • Publisher: Baylor University Press

      • Release Date: November 2005

      • Weight: 209g

      • Dimensions: 126 x 203 x 15 mm

      • Eden Code: 1188151


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