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The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled : imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery /

In 1958, Bible scholar Morton Smith announced the discovery of a sensational manuscript, a second-century letter written by St. Clement of Alexandria, who quotes an unknown, longer version of the "Gospel of Mark". When Smith published the letter in 1973, he set off a firestorm of controver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jeffery, Peter, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "A discovery of extraordinary importance"
  • Questions
  • The secret gospel and the origins of Christian liturgy
  • The secret gospel and the Alexandrian lectionaries
  • A gospel in fragments
  • Hypnotic hymns
  • The happiness of the dead: Morton Smith on Christian morality
  • Hellenistic homosexualities
  • Uranian Venus: a homoerotic subculture in English universities
  • The wisdom of Salome
  • The one who knows
  • Appendix: Morton Smith's translation of the Mar Saba letter of Clement.