I've got hold of a copy of Morton Smith's Secret Gospel. Smith and Landau have slightly misread. Morton Smith says that he deciphered the text after leaving Mar Saba and after speaking to Scholem but well before arriving at Athens. Athens was where he first had time to think through the implications.According to Smith and Landau. Morton Smith said that he realized at Mar Saba that he had discovered a previously unknown letter of Clement against the Carpocratians. He took careful photographs which he only properly studied after leaving Palestine and arriving at Athens. This account makes it unlikely that he informed the monks at Mar Saba of his discovery of an alternative version of Mark.
Morton Smith's account apparently has him only becoming aware of the references in the letter to 'Secret Mark' after he had left Palestine.
Andrew Criddle
Andrew Criddle
Statistics: Posted by andrewcriddle — Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:49 am