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The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled [electronic resource] : imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery / Peter Jeffery.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.Description: xi, 340 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780300135084 (electronic bk.)
  • 0300135084 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 229/.8 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2860.S42 J44 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-326) and indexes.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

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