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Peter Jeffery, The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)

ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11760-8

Library of Congress classification  BS2860.S42 J44 2006

Dewey Decimal classification  229/.8 22

 

Publisher’s description: “Jeffery unravels the answers to the mystery” 

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300117604

 

The Library of Congress is, as usual, non-committal.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006014035-d.html

 

On-line Reviews

“a learned and lively book” – Stephen Goranson

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/message/21590

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/textualcriticism/message/2715

 

“fascinating” -- Stephen C. Carlson

http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2006/11/peter-jeffery-on-secret-mark.html

http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2006/04/forthcoming-book-on-secret-mark.html

 

“definitive debunking of the Secret Mark hoax” – Loren Rosson III

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/11/jeffery-on-secret-mark.html

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-secret-mark.html

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/11/peter-jeffery-unveiled.html

http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2006/11/busybody-peter-jeffery-unveiled.html

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/12/relax-and-enjoy-this.html

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/message/21591

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2007/01/controversial-studies-and-question-of_30.html

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=187083

 

“discusses many interesting aspects of the cultural construction of homosexuality” – Wayne R. Dynes

http://dyneslines.blogspot.com/2006/11/imitatio-christi-or-getting-naked-for.html

http://gayspecies.blogspot.com/2006/11/watch-and-learn.html

 

"*****" (from those who read it); "*" (from those who didn't) -- Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Gospel-Mark-Unveiled-Imagined/dp/0300117604/sr=8-1/qid=1165242842/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1363932-4310341?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

(no comment) -- вселенский трамвай

http://zav-mag.livejournal.com/2006/12/21/

 

"The Agony of Morton Smith"

http://dyneslines.blogspot.com/2008/01/agony-of-morton-smith.html

 

The New York Times story

"Really, it is time for 'CSI: Academia.'" -- Peter Steinfels, New York Times (March 31, 2007, p. A12)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/us/31beliefs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

Comments on the Times story:

http://www.gaynz.com/aarticles/templates/features.asp?articleid=1756&zoneid=16

http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2007/03/secret-mark-in-new-york-times.html

http://www.theolog.org/blog/2007/04/the_secret_gosp.html

http://www.bib-arch.org/hoax/bswbHoaxMainPage.asp

http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/05/18/was_jesus_gay_no_but_morton_smith_thought_so.php

http://codexceltica.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-so-christian-year.html

http://cheatseekingmissiles.blogspot.com/2007/04/good-friday-bad-bad-media.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810095/posts

http://www.cultureandmedia.com/eoc/2007/200704041524.aspx

http://www.islamicboard.com/comparative-religion/39861-secret-mark-gospel-what-do-you-guys-think.html

http://tzvee.blogspot.com/2007/03/ny-times-morton-smith-hoax-lives-on.html

 

Scott G. Brown's review

"a hermeneutics of desperation" -- Scott G. Brown

http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/5627_5944.pdf

 

Comments on the Brown review:

http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2007/09/scott-brown-reviews-peter-jeffery.html

http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2007/09/review-of-biblical-literature-latest_18.html

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2007/09/rbl-review-of-peter-jeffery.html

http://www.tonychartrand-burke.com/apocryphicity/2007/10/04/fragments-agrapha-and-secret-mark/

http://markwaterman.blogspot.com/2007/09/whopping-book-review-secret-gospel-of.html

http://piccolozaccheo.splinder.com/post/14317737

http://www.palmtreegarden.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=26337

 

My initial response to Brown (first installment). It is unlikely that I will complete this one.

www.music.princeton.edu/~jeffery/replytobrown.pdf

 

A more concise reply to Brown, which the Review of Biblical Literature refused to publish.

http://music.princeton.edu/~jeffery/Review%20of%20Biblical%20Literature-Jeffery%20reply%20to%20Brown.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/4rlssk.

 

Comments on my reply to Brown

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2008/04/peter-jeffery-replies-to-scott-brown.html

http://forbiddengospels.blogspot.com/2008/04/peter-jefferys-response-to-scott-brown.html

http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Secret/SecMark-News.html

http://piccolozaccheo.splinder.com/post/16760047/prosegue+il+dibattito+sul+Vang

http://www.tonychartrand-burke.com/apocryphicity/2008/04/27/jeffery-vs-brown-on-secret-mark/

http://www.ntgateway.com/weblog/2008/05/peter-jefferys-response-to-scott-brown.html

 

 

Panel discussion

A "Secret Mark feast" which took place at Claremont Graduate University, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity:

http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=415

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2008/03/secret-mark-panel-discussion.html

http://blog.bible.org/primetimejesus/content/secret-mark%3A-debate-not-over

http://www.tonychartrand-burke.com/apocryphicity/2008/03/03/panel-on-secret-mark/

 

 

Print reviews (some of these are accessible on-line to paid subscribers)

"This careful work . . . provide[s] an extremely damaging case against Smith and his Secret Mark."

Robert L. Webb, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 5 (2007) 216. http://jhj.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/2/205.pdf

 

". . . there is indeed more to consider and maybe the pendulum has moved slightly in the negative direction."

Paul Foster, "Secret Mark Again," The Expository Times 119/1 (October 2007) 50-51. http://ext.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/119/1/50

 

"Peter Jeffery is probably the cleverest of Smith's assailants to date."

W. V. Harris, "A Bible Fantasy," Times Literary Supplement No. 5455 (19 October 2007) 23. http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25371-2649536,00.html

 

"Students and teachers of liturgical history . . . need to read this book and to do so soon! . . . From this point on it will be difficult to say anything about early Lent and Christian initiation without reference to this book."

Maxwell E. Johnson, Worship 82/1 (January 2008) 85-89.

 

Unscientific straw poll

Vote your opinion at http://www.deinde.org/2008/04/29/what-the-whole-world-thinks-about-the-secret-gospel-of-mark-please-vote/

 

Comments:

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The bad news is: the Secret Gospel isn't doing very well. The worse news is: the only people who still believe in it are the Bible scholars . . . .

 

 

SBL session

Don't miss the session "Secret Mark after 50 Years" coming up at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Boston this year.

 

Frequently asked questions about Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel

You had to ask . . . .

 

Comic relief

Tired of the Secret Gospel of Mark? Maybe you'd prefer The Secret Gospel of Maxwell Lord. You read about it here first!

 

 


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