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Morton Smith saw the longer Secret Mark passage as a story of baptism. [g] [393] According to Smith "the mystery of the kingdom of God" that Jesus taught the young man, was, in fact, a magical rite that "involved a purificatory baptism".
Morton Smith (May 28, 1915 – July 11, 1991) [1] [2] was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University.He is best known for his reported discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark, during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in 1958.
In 2005 Stephen Carlson published Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark, which also asserted that the manuscript was a hoax. By this time independent confirmation of the manuscript's existence and appearance had been presented by Hedrick and others; Carlson argued that Smith had himself written the text into the book.
Mark relates nothing of what went on there and they leave. This section, verse 46, is where Morton Smith claimed a copy of a letter from Clement of Alexandria, found at the Mar Saba monastery in 1958, showed a secret extension of the book called the Secret Gospel of Mark, as well as between verses 34-35.
After Morton Smith had published his two books on the Secret Gospel of Mark, Pierson published a somewhat critical review in The New York Times, wondering whether the document was “an early Christian cover-up” and saying that the passages “read not like Mark’s work but like a late and not wholly successful imitation” made before the ...
The adaptation became more idiosyncratic as it developed: On pages 55 and 56 Brown wove into the story a passage from the Secret Gospel of Mark, a highly contentious and disputed document said to have been written by Clement of Alexandria that Professor Morton Smith claimed to have discovered in 1958.
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A quote from Morton Smith about whatever sexual content might have been in the spiritually transforming experience Jesus was apparently offering is apropos, however. Care to find one? --Wetman 01:32, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC) There are a few quotable sections on this in Morton Smith's book Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel of Mark. I am ...