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
“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
(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
"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://tzvee.blogspot.com/2007/03/ny-times-morton-smith-hoax-lives-on.html
"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
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/
"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.
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Comments:
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 . . . .
Don't miss the session "Secret Mark after 50 Years" coming up at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Boston this year.
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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