The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery /

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Main Author: Jeffery, Peter, 1953-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • "A discovery of extraordinary importance"
  • Questions
  • The secret gospel and the origins of Christian liturgy
  • The secret gospel and the Alexandrian lectionaries
  • A gospel in fragments
  • Hypnotic hymns
  • The happiness of the dead: Morton Smith on Christian morality
  • Hellenistic homosexualities
  • Uranian Venus: a homoerotic subculture in English universities
  • The wisdom of Salome
  • The one who knows
  • Appendix: Morton Smith's translation of the Mar Saba letter of Clement.