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The Gospel Hoax
Stephen C. Carlson
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Description for The Gospel Hoax
Paperback. "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. This book demonstrates that "Secret Mark" was an elaborate hoax created by Morton Smith. Num Pages: 170 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HRCG9; JFH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 212.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781932792485
SKU
V9781932792485
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About Stephen C. Carlson
Stephen C. Carlson is Partner in Ditthavong & Carlson (Fairfax, VA).
Reviews for The Gospel Hoax
A real-life "Da Vinci Code" detective story set in academia.
Publishers Weekly A scholarly bombshell. Built on pains-taking research, without any shrillness in tone, Carlson's argument is clear and compelling. Scholars in the field of Christian Origins will have to reckon with it, and many will have to re-think some important matters about the Gospels and ... Read more
Publishers Weekly A scholarly bombshell. Built on pains-taking research, without any shrillness in tone, Carlson's argument is clear and compelling. Scholars in the field of Christian Origins will have to reckon with it, and many will have to re-think some important matters about the Gospels and ... Read more