Beyond Suspicion: on the Authorship of the Mar Saba Letter and the Secret Gospel of Mark

The suspicion that the ‘discoverer’ of the letter from Clement of Alexandria to Theodore was in reality its author was raised shortly after its first publication in 1973, and has often been reasserted in the years since Morton Smith’s death in 1991. Yet the fragments of the ‘Secret Gospel of Mark’ a...

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Main Author: Watson, Francis 1956- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2010
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 128-170
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