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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: Jeffery, Peter, 1953-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007Description: xi, 340 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Secret Gospel according to MarkGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 229/.8 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.