Mark's Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith's Controversial Discovery - Couverture rigide

Brown, Scott G.

 
9780889204614: Mark's Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith's Controversial Discovery
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ISBN 10 : 0889204616 ISBN 13 : 9780889204614
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Did the evangelist Mark write two versions of his gospel? According to a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria, Mark created a second, more spiritual edition of his gospel for theologically advanced Christians in Alexandria. Clement's letter contains two excerpts from this lost gospel, including a remarkably different account of the raising of Lazarus.

Forty-five years of cursory investigation have yielded five mutually exclusive paradigms, abundant confusion, and rumours of forgery. Strangely, one of the few things upon which most investigators agree is that the letter's own explanation of the origin and purpose of this longer gospel need not be taken seriously.

Mark's Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith's Controversial Discovery calls this pervasive bias into question. After thoroughly critiquing the five main paradigms, Scott G. Brown demonstrates that the gospel excerpts not only sound like Mark, but also employ Mark's distinctive literary techniques, deepening this gospels theology and elucidating puzzling aspects of its narrative. This mystic gospel represents Mark's own response to the Alexandrian predilection to discover the essential truths of a philosophy beneath the literal level of revered texts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott G. Brown wrote the first doctoral disseration on the secret Gospel of Mark (University of Toronto, 1999) and has published relevant articles in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Revue Biblique, and Biblical Archaeology Review. He presently teaches courses on Christian Origins in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

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Éditeur
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0889204616
ISBN 13 
9780889204614
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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