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	Secret Gospel of Mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Secret Gospel of Mark refers to a non-canonical gospel which is the subject of a previously unknown letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria and discovered in 1958.
		Mark, as a mystagogue, is portrayed as a spiritual guide for those initiates ready to advance to the second level.
		Further interpretation of Secret Mark in a context within Canonical Mark, suggests a correspondence between the youth in Secret Mark, and the mysterious almost-naked figure who is in the company of Jesus but flees when he is arrested at Mark 14:51, and also with the figure present in the empty tomb at Mark 16:5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark (3022 words)

	Gospel of Mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gospel itself is anonymous, but as early as Papias in the early 2nd century, a text was attributed to Mark, a disciple of Peter, who is said to have recorded the Apostle's discourses.
		The general theory is that Mark is a Hellenistic gospel, written primarily for an audience of Greek-speaking residents of the Roman Empire.
		Mark is possibly the easiest gospel recognizable as an artistic creation of a particular culture of people at a particular period in the ancient world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gospel_of_Mark (3309 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The discovery in 1958 of a fragment of an unknown Secret Gospel of Mark provoked a storm of recrimination, denial and abuse.
		The Secret Gospel of Mark was quoted in a previously unknown letter of Clement of Alexandria, which had been transcribed into the endpapers of a 17th century printed book in the monastery of Mar Saba, twelve miles south of Jerusalem.
		A discussion of these endings and the canonically preferred short ending at Mark 16:8 can be found at the entry Gospel of Mark Apologists claim the abbreviated ending also to be the earliest one from the lack of references in Patristic writers and by analyzing surviving texts.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark (1757 words)

	Gospel of Mark FAQ
		Marcan priority is the name for the belief that Mark is the first of the Gospels to be composed and that Matthew and Luke depend, in some measure, on Mark for the basic outline of Christ's life and the basic methodology of Gospel composition.
		The symbol for Mark's Gospel is the Lion.
		The association of Mark's Gospel with Peter is strong because of the testimony of at least one early church father that Mark is recording the preaching of Peter.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/2736/faq.html (2255 words)

	The secret gospel of Mark.
		Clement of Alexandria and the Secret Gospel of Mark.
		While I have never been persuaded that the author of the secret gospel and the author of the canonical gospel are one and the same, I am not naturally averse to the suggestion of a common source between the gospel of John (in the Lazarus story) and the secret gospel of Mark.
		Then, in the very brief second excerpt from the secret gospel, Jesus is said to have rejected three women; with the homosexual overtones of the previous passage still echoing in the ears this rejection of the women sounds to the modern reader like a deliberate choice of individual sexual orientation.
	www.textexcavation.com /secretmark.html (7453 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although Clement states otherwise, it is likely that Secret Mark was written first, and the esoteric passages later removed to form canonical Mark, leaving some strange rifts in the Markan text.
		The longer pericope from Secret Mark is a parallel of John's Lazarus story, not found anywhere in the synoptics.
		With the information gleaned from Secret Mark, it is obvious that the youth was being baptized, and that whoever edited the secret gospel to create our canonical Mark failed to completely extract him from the text.
	www.maplenet.net /~trowbridge/secmark.htm (422 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark
		Secret Mark is in reality only a couple of short fragments.
		The Secret Mark was accidentally discovered by Columbia University Professor Morton Smith in the summer of 1958 at the Greek Orthodox monastery of Hagios Sabbas near Jerusalem.
		The Secret Mark fragment testifies to the instability of New Testament texts before the end of the second century.
	homepages.which.net /~radical.faith/background/secretmark.htm (842 words)

	Kuchinsky on the secret gospel of Mark.
		After all, there was opportunity both between Mark and Clement and between Clement and the discovery of the Mar Saba manuscript for some anonymous person to have composed the secret gospel, and it is at least possible that such a person had baptism in mind.
		Consider that, of the resurrection miracles recounted in the canonical gospels, the raising of Lazarus and the resurrection of Jesus stand alone as the only ones which involve the actual tomb of the deceased,* and therefore the only accounts in which the door of the tomb would be a natural factor.
		gospel of Peter the door of the tomb is mentioned both in 12.53 (the deliberation of the women), which parallels Mark 16.3, and previously in 9.37 (the actual resurrection), for which there is no canonical parallel.
	www.textexcavation.com /kuchinskybrownsecmk.html (5013 words)

	Secret Mark
		For its part, the version of the story from Secret Mark has its own peculiarities not found in John, such as the initiation of the young man into the "mystery of God's domain." The basic story, however, probably derives from the common stock of miracle stories available to both Mark and John, or their sources.
		Above we noted that Salome is mentioned in Secret Mark, and it is noteworthy that Salome is absent in the lists of women who went to the tomb in Matthew and Luke; it is possible that Matthew and Luke relied on a version of Mark without any mention of Salome.
		Thus, Secret Mark may be an important witness to the textual history of the Gospel of Mark.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /secretmark.html (1162 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark: Commentary on Recent Scholarship
		Perhaps the strangest chapter in Secret Mark's long history was its appropriation by the Free Daist Communion, a California-based Eastern religious group led by American-born guru Da Avabhasa (formerly known as Franklin Jones, Da Free John, and Da Kalki).
		Secret Mark has been included in the texts being translated as part of the Scholars Version project, and is described as an early gospel fragment in material that the Jesus Seminar has been making available to popular audiences.
		Secret Mark's plight constitutes a warning to all scholars as to the dangers of allowing sentiments of faith to cloud or prevent critical examination of evidence.
	www.gnosis.org /library/secm_commentary.htm (5763 words)

	Printable version - Was Jesus Gay?—An Examination of the Secret Gospel of Mark
		Secret Mark (as I shall call it) is one of several apocryphal gospels that circulated in the early centuries of the Christian era.
		Secret Mark is unique among these in that it claims to be an expanded version of the canonical gospel of Mark, not an independent gospel.
		This secret gospel was then stolen by a rogue elder in the church and given to Carpocrates, who added to it his own “blasphemous and carnal doctrine.” Theodore needed to know how to distinguish genuine Mark from the corrupted version, which they used to legitimize their sexual license.
	www.apologeticspress.org /articles/print/2599 (5517 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark: Additional Information
		The secret passages were only intended to be read by those who had been thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of the ancient Alexandrian church, not by all Christians.
		If the Secret Gospel of Mark is authentic, then two other possibilities are reasonable: 1.) it was written by the same person who wrote the Gospel of Mark, as Clement argues; or 2.) it was added later by some unknown writer, presumably from the Alexandria Church.
		The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark.
	gospels.net /additional/secretmarkadditional.html (307 words)

	Mark's Secret Gospel
		The secret gospel of Mark, said to be along the same lines of the original canonized version but with several radically new passages, is undergoing re-authentification by a University of Toronto scholar.
		Secret Mark, he concluded in 1973, records a special baptism given by Jesus to chosen disciples, “singly and by night,” that “may have resulted in completion of the spiritual union by physical union.”
		Secret Mark’s use of baptism as a metaphor for martyrdom thus develops the original gospel and neatly explains a figure from it who has puzzled scholars for centuries.
	www.gnn.tv /headlines/3509/Mark_s_Secret_Gospel (1512 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark
		The Gospel of Mark is thought to be the oldest surviving written Gospel.
		The Secret Gospel of Mark is a version of Mark that was in use in Alexandria by at least the first quarter of the second century.
		The gospel surfaced in a fragment of an ancient letter written by Clement of Alexandria (circa 150-213 CE) A near consensus of Clementine scholars vouch for the letter's authenticity.
	members.aol.com /DrSwiney/secret.html (1029 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark?
		This continues the point in H--the deeper truths of the SGOM is not for the immature, it is to be taught to those in a healthy spiritual condition.
		Secret Mark is also an imitation, with its Markan parallels deviating only at its climax, in language that resonates with mid-twentieth-century expressions of sexuality.
		Accordingly, I have to conclude that the SGOM (and this "possible" Clementine epistle) is essentially useless for forming a grounded opinion on the matter of church "cover-ups" and conspiratorial suppession of unfavorable truths...
	www.christian-thinktank.com /qbadmark.html (4263 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark
		In the document, authoritatively attributed to Clement of Alexandria, a "Secret Gospel of Mark" is mentioned.
		Clement presents fragments from the text of this secret gospel which he claims is in the custody of the Church in Alexandria, but which is kept secret.
		And after the words,"And he comes into Jericho," the secret Gospel adds only, "And the sister of the youth whom Jesus loved and his mother and Salome were there, and Jesus did not receive them." But many other things about which you wrote both seem to be and are falsifications.
	www.webcom.com /gnosis/library/secm.htm (961 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark
		The Greek manuscript referred to as the "Secret Gospel of Mark" is actually an 18th century Greek minuscule letter reporting to be from Clement of Alexandria someone named Theodore.
		Only the heretics say there is secret doctrine from the apostles which you must know to correctly understand the scripture.
		Since this document simply talks about a secret gospel of Mark we will not know for sure until the actual document in question is found.
	www.biblefacts.org /church/secmark.html (1166 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark > Jesus8880
		The secret gospel of Mark was discovered in 1958 by Professor Morton Smith of Columbia University when he was cataloguing old manuscripts at the ancient Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba about twelve miles southeast of Jerusalem.
		Clement’s letter was in response to a request by another church official called Theodorus, to explain how the infamous gnostic Christian sect called the Carpocratians surreptitiously obtained the Secret Gospel which the church of Alexandria was supposed to be safeguarding.
		They created their own gospel, now “lost” (destroyed), that was based on the Secret Gospel of Mark.
	www.jesus8880.com /chapters/mk10-preview/mk10v34x-secret-gospel (287 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark
		In it, he quotes the text of a secret gospel he claims is in the custody of the Church in Alexandria.
		For not all true things are the truth, nor should that truth which merely seems true according to human opinions be preferred to the true truth, that according to the faith.
		And after the words, "And he comes into Jericho," the secret Gospel adds only, "And the sister of the youth whom Jesus loved and his mother and Salome were there, and Jesus did not receive them." But many other things about which you wrote both seem to be and are falsifications.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~tomshoemaker/handouts/secret-mark.html (843 words)

	The Secret Gospel of Mark
		An anthroposophist named Karl Koenig, an outstanding, humble servant of humanity, taught a course in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1962 in which he brought this progressive series to our attention and showed how it was preparing for the initiation of Lazarus as the Evangelist John.
		The letter was written to one Theodore who had inquired as to the genuineness of certain passages in a certain edition of the Gospel of Mark.
		In accordance with the tradition of the ancient mysteries, however, and in keeping with Christ’s “don’t throw your pearls to the swine” passage (Mt 7,6), Clement admonished Theodore to deny that authenticity even under oath because not all true things are to be disclosed to all people.
	www.bibleandanthroposophy.com /Smith/main/disciple/secret_gospel.html (573 words)

	Secret Gospel of Mark at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Secret Gospel of Mark was quoted in a previously unknown letter of Clement of Alexandria, which had been transcribed into a 17th century printed book in the monastery of Mar Saba, twelve miles south of Jerusalem.
		A second fragment of Secret Mark was deleted from Mark 10:46.
		Miles Fowler, "Identification of the Bethany Youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark with other Figures Found in Mark and John" proposes that some late-1st-century Christians understood that up to five seemingly separate youths now found in Mark, Secret Mark, and John, were identical.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Secret_Gospel_of_Mark.html (1147 words)

	The Secret History of Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"As for Mark, then, during Peter's stay in Rome he wrote and account of the Lord's doings, not, however, declaring all of them, nor yet hinting at the secret ones, but selecting what he thought most useful for increasing the faith of those who were being instructed.
		There was a general belief in the early years of the Christian era that Jesus and his disciples were a roaming band of homosexuals.
		Some of the early writings, like "The Secret Gospel of Mark" have been lost, but the surviving writings show that the controversy was both heated and prolonged.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/secretmark.html (549 words)

	Cygnus' Study
		Below are the two sections (and where they belong in the Gospel of Mark) that we know about, followed by the fragment of the letter thought to be from Clement.
		Now of the things they keep saying about the divinely inspired Gospel according to Mark, some are altogether falsifications, and others, even if they do contain some true elements, nevertheless are not reported truely.
		And after the words,"And he comes into Jericho," the secret Gospel adds only, "And the sister of the young man whom Jesus loved was there, along with his mother and Salome, but Jesus did not receive them." But many other things about which you wrote both seem to be and are falsifications.
	www.cygnus-study.com /pagesecm.html (1186 words)

	Secret Mark, Gospel of
		Secret Mark is discusses in chapter twelve "The Kingdom of Heaven" at pages 225 to 244.
		With a light touch and an autobiographic flair, he explores the intricacies of the canonical and Secret Gospels of Mark.
		Meyer, Marvin W. Secret Gospels : essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark vii, 199 p.
	homepage.usask.ca /~rhf330/secretmark.html (1144 words)

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		In the course of my recent research re: the compositional history of the Gospel of Mark, I have reread Morton Smith's two books on the subject, after many years (see the bibliographical notes at the end).
		Since these two texts, the letter itself, and the gospel fragments as given by Clement, are composed in completely different styles, and using very different vocabularies, in order to forge them Smith would have had to be an expert on both Clement and Mk.
		The excerpt from the letter of Clement, itself, is much longer than the gospel fragments, and it would have been a lot harder to forge credibly.
	www.trends.net /~yuku/bbl/8secmk.htm (2756 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| The Secret Gospel of Mark
		In 1958, a historian by the name of Morton Smith was visiting the Orthodox Monastery of Mar Saba near Jerusalem when he came across a fragment of a letter purported to be written by third-century historian Clement of Alexandria.
		In this letter, Clement describes a special, "more spiritual" version of the Gospel of Mark written for special Christian initiates, as well as a third, heretical version altered by Carpocrates to fit with his own theologically unique Christian sect.
		Some believe the letter to be a forgery, while others believe it to have been suppressed or destroyed by Christian conservatives, frightened that the Secret Gospel could undermine Christianity as we know it.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/7496 (789 words)

	Gospel of Mark Links
		The life of the apostle and evangelist Mark according to severus of the coptic church.
		JESUS AND THE DEMONS IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK (Contrasting Secular and Animistic Interpretations)
		An Overview of Mark There is a series of sermons on in the archives.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/2736/mark2.html (645 words)

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