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Secret Gospel of Mark

	Mar Saba Monastery
		Sabas established the Great Laura where monks came from their isolated cells once a week to join the community for the Eucharist and to obtain supplies necessary for the coming Week.
		Sabas died in 532 A.D. at the age of 93.
		The corpse was returned to Mar Saba Monastery as a result of an agreement between Pope Paul VI and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athinagorus during the Papal Visit to the Holy Land in 1965.
	www.geocities.com /bethlehem74/marsaba.htm (253 words)

	Mar Saba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mar Saba is a Greek Orthodox monastery located near Bethlehem, Israel, and overlooks the Kidron River.
		Mar Saba is where Morton Smith found a copy of a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria which contains excerpts of a Secret Gospel of Mark.
		Mar Saba is occasionally referred to as the Convent or Monastery of Santa Saba (cf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mar_Saba (204 words)

	Mar Saba Monastery, Bethlehem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba or Saint Saba's Monastery; 14.5 km east of Bethlehem and a further 6 km from St.
		Theodosius; is considered to be the oldest ongoing inhabited monastery in the Holy Land and one of the oldest inhabited monasteries in the world, founded by Saint Saba of Cappadocia in the year 439.
		Despite the fact that Mar Saba is reputed to have had a long tradition of hospitality to strangers, women have never been allowed to enter.
	www.atlastours.net /holyland/mar_saba_monastery.html (180 words)

	History
		Kfar Saba was on the front lines during the War-with the British to the South, and the Turks and Germans to the North.
		Kfar Saba was also a temporary home for groups of pioneers, who were in training prior to settling in other parts of the country.
		The villagers of Arab Kfar Saba immobilized the Jewish residents by snipers' fire, launching ambushes, and by every other type of harassment.This came to ana end in May 1948, when Arab Kfar Saba was taken over by the now independent State of Israel.
	www.kfar-saba.muni.il /htmls/english/history_english.html (1582 words)

	Judean Wilderness (BiblePlaces.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mar Saba was founded by Sabas in 483 A.D. and became the largest monastery.
		Mar Saba was a laura-type monastery, which served as the center for monks who lived separately throughout the week but gathered together on weekends for communal prayer and mass.
		Mar Saba Monastery (Bethlehem Homepage) Describes the life of Saint Sabas and how the monastery began.
	www.bibleplaces.com /judeanwilderness.htm (742 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		The founder of Mar Saba was born in Cappadocia, now known as Turkey, in 439 A.D. He entered a monastery there as a young man, but came to the Holy Land seeking the absolute solitude of a Christian hermit.
		Sabas died in 532 A.D. In his later years, he had become a leading crusader for Christian orthodoxy.
		Over the centuries, the monks of Mar Saba have survived earthquakes, attacks by bandits, holy wars with Islam, and the spiritual indifference of modern society.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/21/story_2140_2.html (545 words)

	Mar Saba Monastery, West Bank - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Mar Saba Monastery, West Bank - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Carved into the walls of a canyon, the monastery stands opposite the cave where Saint Sabas began his ascetic life in the 5th century.
		The monastery, still inhabited by Christian monks, is one of the many religious buildings in the West Bank, which together reflect the diversity of faiths practiced in the region.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461513821_761557747_-1_1/mar_saba_monastery_west_bank.html (80 words)

	The secret gospel of Mark.
		The Mar Saba manuscript belongs to century XX, not to century XVIII.
		And, if Carlson is correct that the Mar Saba manuscript is a hoax, then the joke might be that Morton Smith himself gets to supply in his related books what is lacking in the text, namely the true interpretation (and that which accords with the true philosophy) of his perfectly preserved gospel fragments.
		Seven years later, Smith would return from Mar Saba with photographs of a new text that describes, in terms that are sexually charged for the 20th century reader, a young man with a linen cloth over his naked body spending the night with Jesus and being taught the mystery of the kingdom of God.
	www.textexcavation.com /secretmark.html (7725 words)

	A Reluctant Christmas Pilgrim
		Considered the greatest of the desert monasteries both for its architecture and its history, Mar Saba is embedded in a sheer cliff face that towers above a trickling river.
		As we stopped to ponder the view of Mar Saba in the soft light of a winter dawn, I noticed the flicker of kerosene lamps inside some of the dwellings.
		Mar Saba presented a searing vision of the end of that culture, the last echo of Byzantium.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/excerpts/exc_20011219.shtml (1764 words)

	Mar Saba (Life in the Holy Land) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Such is the character of the one remaining unchanged monastery of this type, the famous establishment of Mar Saba, in the Kedron Valley, not far from the Dead Sea.
		The name "laura" is applied to a number of contiguous but separate cells, each inhabited by a single hermit or anchorite, in contradistinction to a monastery or "coenobium," where the monks live together under the rule of one superior.
		The grotto is also shown where St. Saba lived and died, consisting of two chambers, which tradition says he shared peaceably with a lion, who was the original tenant.
	www.lifeintheholyland.com /mar_saba.htm (689 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: History News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fourteen kilometers east of Bethlehem is the spectacular vista of the "Laura of St. Sabas" clinging to the walls of the Kidron Valley.
		A visit to the Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba is not one of curiosity but a true pilgrimage of knowledge which will bring to mind the glorious epoch of the Eastern Church.
		Some 350 meters north of St. Sabas on the western slopes of the Kidron Valley is a small monastery dedicated to St. Sophia, mother of Mar Saba.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/h041.htm (1855 words)

	Mar Saba letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mar Saba Letter is an epistle attributed to Clement of Alexandria and discovered by Morton Smith in 1958.
		He stated that, while cataloging documents at the ancient monastery of Mar Saba in 1958, he discovered the text of the letter transcribed into the endpapers of a seventeenth century printed edition of Ignatius of Antioch.
		This letter is consequently referred to as the Mar Saba letter of Clement of Alexandria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mar_Saba_letter (776 words)

	Alibris: Saba
		Saba and her brother, Mesfin, have been raised by their grandparents in a remote area of Ethiopia.
		When they're kidnapped and brought to Gondar, home of the emperor and his court, Saba learns things about her family and herself that turn her whole world upside down.
		The Spanish approach to the occupation of eighteenth-century Texas embraced the triad of mission, presidio, and settlement.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Saba (1050 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Saint Sabbas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in 439 at Mutalaska, Cappadocia; died in 532 at Laura Mar Saba, near Jerusalem.
		In 483 he founded the Laura Mar Saba, was ordained in 491, and in 494 was made archimandrite of all the monasteries in Palestine.
		Represented holding the rule of his monastery in his hand, seated on the edge of a precipice, or praying in a cavern, nearby a lion.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd07344.htm (116 words)

	Philologos \| The Holy Land and the Bible by Cunningham Geikie \| Chapter 31
		As they arrive, their tents are set up in the little glen on the west, the crowd of mules and horses attending them being picketed before the monastery, which, for the time, is turned into a hospice on a large scale.
		Among the mountain-tops to the west of Mar Saba, the highest is that of El Muntar, "The Watch Tower," brown and barren, and marked by the steep slope, unbroken except by precipices, with which it descends to the plateau beneath.
		The reputation of the Mar Saba monks does not support the belief that either multiplicity of devotional services, or a life of seclusion and external simplicity, can secure the highest ideal of religious life.
	philologos.org /__eb-thlatb/chap31.htm (2493 words)

	Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thanks to some charitable work he had once done for the Orthodox Church, the monks of Mar Saba (who had once numbered several hundred but by 1958 had been reduced to a dozen) invited Smith to catalogue their library.
		In the library at Mar Saba, tucked into an ancient volume, Smith found -- or at least, maintained that he had found until his death in 1991 -- a letter by Clement of Alexandria, a second-century Church Father, to a fellow cleric named Theodorus, quoting from a "secret" Gospel of Mark.
		The plot turns on the discovery in the monastery of Mar Saba of a document (my father called it "the shred of Nicodemas") which, if genuine, would disprove the Gospel account of the resurrection.
	article.gmane.org /gmane.music.dadl.ot/18527 (717 words)

	Index
		We were the first congregation of the Mar Thoma Church outside India with a history that goes back almost to the beginning of the 20th century.
		The latest pride of the Mar Thoma Church in Malaysia is undoubtedly the beautiful newly renovated St Peter's Mar Thoma Church in Johor Bharu.
		Suara MarThoma is the mouthpiece of the Malaysian Mar Thoma Church.
	www.marthomamalaysia.org (235 words)

	The Martyrology for December 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John of Damascus is probably best known for his treatises composed at St. Sabas against the iconoclasts, (those who renounced sacred images).
		He is also known for his dogmatic writings, the principal of which is, "The Source of Knowledge," also his homilies on morals and several homilies aboutthe Bd.
		John is believed to have died of old age at the monastery of St. Sabas.
	www.christdesert.org /cgi-bin/martyrology.dynamic.5.cgi?month=11&day=4&date=Go (410 words)

	Monks (Life in the Holy Land) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The [Mar Saba] convent is considered by the Greeks almost a penal one, and scandal says that all its inmates except the superiors have been sent hither for heresy or other offences.
		Of heresy certainly they must be acquitted, so far as their knowledge goes, for they are profoundly ignorant, and whatever their other offences may have been, they are unwearied in their devotions.
		A monastic life is chosen, as one of the monks here [at Mar Saba] told us, for the sake of peace and of eating the bread of idleness, and there is no training for their vow, nor any thought of applying this life of the religious to the advantage of the Church.
	www.lifeintheholyland.com /monks.htm (732 words)

	Novum Testamentum: Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The shape of the letters are also internally inconsistent and do not match other manuscripts from Mar Saba dating around the same time.
		Second, Carlson notes that there is one other manuscript from Mar Saba, which Smith dated as a twentieth century hand, that appears to have been the same hand responsible for Theodore.
		Despite the assertions by Brown that Smith did not have the ability to concoct such a forgery[2], Carlson shows that Smith was well-suited for the job.
	www.novumtestamentum.com /2005/12/review-of-carlsons-gospel-hoax.php (1306 words)

	Feature: Nearest in love by William Dalrymple
		I first really heard about St John of Damascus and his writings was when I went to spend a few night in Mar Saba in the course of a journey around the monasteries of the Middle East in 1994.
		Mar Saba lay tucked into a cliff face in the wastes of Judea, a spectacular, near-vertical plunge of chapels, cells and oratories.
		One night, while the monks were still singing their vespers in the chapel, and the chant of their kyries were echoing around the rock-cut corridors of the monastery, I was taken by the guestmaster to see the cave in which St John wrote The Fount of Knowledge.
	ship-of-fools.com /Features/Dalrymple2.html (1142 words)

	Repubblica.it » spettacoli_e_cultura » Alla roccaforte di Mar Saba monastero per soli uomini
		Il monastero greco di Mar Saba compare fra gli strapiombi a una curva del torrente.
		Il santo, Saba appunto, non volle lì dentro la sua amatissima madre neppure da morta.
		Povero Mar Saba, assediato di puzza dall'acqua e dall'aria.
	www.repubblica.it /2005/h/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/rumizgerus/soliuomini/soliuomini.html (1208 words)

	Hypotyposeis
		I'm not so sure, however, that dating the ink on the Mar Saba Clementine would be as conclusive as Ehrman seems to suggest.
		If the ink on the Mar Saba Clementine is to be tested, there is not enough of it to be carbon-dated, leaving us with the less conclusive examination of the ink's chemical composition for consistency with known early modern inks.
		Therefore, while a chemical test of the ink might condemn the Mar Saba Clementine as a forgery, it is not clear to me that testing the ink can exonerate the letter if the result is consistent with early modern inks.
	www.mindspring.com /~scarlson/hypotyposeis/2003_10_19_arch.html (3943 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Sabbas
		He entered a Basilian monastery aat the age of eight, came to Jerusalem in 456, lived five years in a cavern as a disciple of St. Euthymius, and, after spending some time in various monasteries, founded (483) the Laura Mar Sabe (restored in 1840) in the gorges of the Cedron, southeast of Jerusalem.
		Because some of his monks opposed his rule and demanded a priest as their abbot, Patriarch Salustius of Jerusalem ordained him in 491 and appointed archimandrite of all the monasteries in Palestine in 494.
		After him was named the Basilica of St. Sabas with its former monastery on the Aventine at Rome.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13286b.htm (315 words)

	HISTORY OF HYMNS: Hymn extols triumph felt on Easter morning
		John is the greatest of the Mar Saba hymn writers.
		Indeed, the monastery at Mar Saba is located in a desolate setting.
		Carlton Young notes that John was the most important dogmatic theologian of the Eastern church and suggests that he "played a major role in the regulation of Byzantine Chant, parallel to the work [in Western chant] initiated by [Pope] Gregory I, through a new type of hymn, the canon.
	reporterinteractive.org /main/Feeds/tabid/116/newsid/872/Default.aspx (585 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He desired a more secluded life and in 455 founded the monastery of the Cathisma of the Theotokos, which was located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
		Unwilling to remain and be its abbot, he went to a cave at Metope which is between Mar Saba and Bethlehem.
		It was here he came to know St. Sabas, whom we met December 5th.
	www.christdesert.org /public_graphics/martyrology/names/t/theodosius.txt (366 words)

	MTSC Service 2
		It is the effort of the Malaysian Zone of the Mar Thoma Church for the benefit of the Malaysian members who are not conversant in Malayalam.
		The Malaysian Zone is grateful to our beloved Metropolitan for His Grace's approval and blessings, Geevarughese Mar Athanasius Thimmeni, the Sabha Council and Members of the Editorial Board and Managing Committee of the Sabha Thakara for their support and assistance.
		All queries to: Dr. Thomas Varughese, Zonal Office, Mar Thomas Syrian Church in Malaysia, 359B Jalan St. Thomas, 51100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
	www.marthomamalaysia.org /sabatharaka.htm (201 words)

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		It was assumed that it had arrived to Constantinople as a part of a collection of books moved from Mar Saba to Jerusalem in the early XIXth century, and from there to the Patriarch's Metochion, where Heiberg did his famous reading in 1906.
		Now, it happens that the Patriarch bought Mar Saba in 1625, and it was so ruined that a complete restoration was needed as early as 1688.
		Thus there is a window of possibility for some valuable manuscripts to be moved from Mar Saba to Jerusalem or Constantinople in the middle XVIIth century.
	dftuz.unizar.es /~rivero/research/isisletter.htm (1221 words)

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