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Hmmm.

Posted by kit on 2024-April-14 06:19:51, Sunday
In reply to Mark's Other Gospel posted by diogenes on 2024-April-14 04:51:35, Sunday

With all respect to Guy Davenport and (slightly less) to Morton Smith, I'm not really persuaded.

I must admit that I quite enjoy all the academic hugger-mugger and skullduggery around the Mar Saba letter (there is something about papyrology that always seems to foster scandal).

But the argument hangs on such a slender and so dubious a textual thread that I can't say I'm even close to being convinced that the "Secret Gospel of Mark" is even an ancient text, much less that it was written by the author of Mark's Gospel. It might possibly be an ancient Gnostic text like all the others we have (preseved for some reason by Clement of Alexandria), but much more likely - in my view - it is a modern fabrication.


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