The secret Gospel of Mark unveiled
Subtitle: imagined rituals of sex, death, and madness in a biblical forgery
By: Peter Jeffery
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780300117608
Subjects: Secret Gospel according to Mark
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-326) and indexes
Table of contents: title: "A discovery of extraordinary importance"; title: Questions; title: The secret gospel and the origins of Christian liturgy; title: The secret gospel and the Alexandrian lectionaries; title: A gospel in fragments; title: Hypnotic hymns; title: The happiness of the dead: Morton Smith on Christian morality; title: Hellenistic homosexualities; title: Uranian Venus: a homoerotic subculture in English universities; title: The wisdom of Salome; title: The one who knows; title: Appendix: Morton Smith's translation of the Mar Saba letter of Clement