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

Jeffery, Peter, 1953-

The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery / [electronic resource] : Peter Jeffery. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. - xi, 340 p.

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Secret Gospel according to Mark.


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