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Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax. Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark

Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax. Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 10.1 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Waco: Baylor University Press, 2005, xix + 151pp. STEPHEN C. CARLSON, THE GOSPEL HOAX. MORTON SMITH’S INVENTION OF SECRET MARK 1 Bruce Chilton Bard College For nearly fi fty years, New Testament scholars have been discussing a document, allegedly a late copy of a second-century original, that quotes bits of a “Secret Gospel of Mark.” In 1960 Morton Smith, a professor at Columbia University, announced the existence of this text at a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, a year and a half after he said he found it in a monastic library near Jerusalem. Press coverage proved wide and instantaneous, because “Secret Mark” climaxes with an evocative image: a young man who wore only “a linen cloth over his naked body” spends the night with Jesus. That proved too good a lure to pass up: what reader of the Gospels could fail to wonder whether Jesus’ engaged in nocturnal initiations such as “Secret Mark” describes? That controversy got in the way of resolving complications that need sorting out, because this text is not an ancient manuscript at all. “Secret http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Rabbinic Judaism Brill

Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax. Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark

Chilton, Bruce
Review of Rabbinic Judaism , Volume 10 (1): 122 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 10.1 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Waco: Baylor University Press, 2005, xix + 151pp. STEPHEN C. CARLSON, THE GOSPEL HOAX. MORTON SMITH’S INVENTION OF SECRET MARK 1 Bruce Chilton Bard College For nearly fi fty years, New Testament scholars have been discussing a document, allegedly a late copy of a second-century original, that quotes bits of a “Secret Gospel of Mark.” In 1960 Morton Smith, a professor at Columbia University, announced the existence of this text at a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, a year and a half after he said he found it in a monastic library near Jerusalem. Press coverage proved wide and instantaneous, because “Secret Mark” climaxes with an evocative image: a young man who wore only “a linen cloth over his naked body” spends the night with Jesus. That proved too good a lure to pass up: what reader of the Gospels could fail to wonder whether Jesus’ engaged in nocturnal initiations such as “Secret Mark” describes? That controversy got in the way of resolving complications that need sorting out, because this text is not an ancient manuscript at all. “Secret

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