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"In 1958, at the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Saba just outside Jerusalem, Columbia University scholar Morton Smith claimed to have unearthed a letter written by the Christian philosopher Clement of Alexandria and containing an excerpt from a previously unknown version of the canonical Gospel of Mark. This excerpt recounts a story of Jesus's apparent sexual encounter with a young, resurrected disciple. In recent years, an influential group of researchers has alleged that no Secret Gospel or letter of Clement existed in antiquity, and that the manuscript that Morton Smith "found" was a modern forgery--created by none other than Smith himself. In this book, Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau enter into the controversy surrounding this document and argue that the Secret Gospel of Mark is neither a first-century alternative gospel nor a twentieth-century forgery by the scholar who announced its discovery. Instead, this account is intimately bound up with the history of Mar Saba, one of the oldest monasteries in the Christian world. In this fascinating work, Smith and Landau present the realities and misconceptions surrounding not only the now-lost manuscript but also its brilliant, enigmatic, and acerbic discoverer, Morton Smith"--

Smith, Morton, --- Mar Saba (Monastery) --- History. --- Secret Gospel according to Mark. --- Smith, Morton --- History --- Secret Gospel according to Mark --- Smith, Morton, 1915-1991 --- Monastère de saint Sabas, Deir Mar Saba, Cisjordanie --- Bible --- Théologie chrétienne --- Ouvrages de controverse --- Evangile de S. Marc "secret"

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Monasticism and religious orders --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- History --- Histoire --- Sabas, --- Mar Saba (Monastery) --- Palestine --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- 271 <33> --- -Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Sabas Saint --- מר סבא (מנזר) --- -Holy Land --- -Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- -Church history --- -Brotherhoods --- Monachism --- Orders, Religious --- Heilige Sabas, --- Sabas-le-Grand, --- Sabas the Enlightened, --- Sabbas, --- Sava Osveshtenȳī, --- Sava, --- Savva, --- Savva Ōsshtennȳī, --- Savva Osvi︠a︡shchennyĭ, --- סבאס, --- Holy Land --- Church history. --- History. --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Monasticism and religious orders - Palestine - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Palestine - Church history. --- Sabas --- Monasticism and religious orders - Palestine - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Sabas ab. in Palaestina --- Sabas, - Saint, - 439-532 --- Palestine - Church history