Clement of Alexandria: And a Secret Gospel of Mark.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xii + 454pp. Rust cloth gilt-lettered on spine, appendixes, indexes, works cited and abbreviations. From the publisher: "In 1958 in the Monastery of Mar Saba, southeast of Jerusalem, the author discovered a fragment of a letter which necessitates a reappraisal of theories about the practice and teaching of Jesus, the origins of the gospels, and the character and early history of the Christian Church. Attributed to Clement of Alexandria, and apparently copied by an eighteenth-century monk, the letter quotes from what it claims is a fuller and original Gospel of Mark—a secret Gospel used by the Alexandrian Church for initiation into the “great mysteries.” Morton Smith here presents an impressive body of evidence that the letter and the Gospel it quotes from are genuine, including photographs of the fragment." Very light rubbing to spine ends and corners, page edges darkened, owner's name etc in pen on first blank, endpapers have a few spots of browning - else a tight, clean and unmarked VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (Dust jacket is lightly rubbed at all edges and folds, spine faded and chafed at ends and edges, not clipped). Item #62824
ISBN: 0674134907
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