Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark.Marvin Meyer's Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark The Secret Gospel of Mark refers to a non-canonical gospel which is the subject of the Mar Saba letter, a previously unknown letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria which Morton Smith claimed to have found transcribed into the endpapers of a 17th century printed edition (Trinity Press International, $23) collects ten essays, six on the Gospel of Thomas This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since October 2007. and four on the Secret Gospel of Mark, all but one published earlier. Meyer argues from Thomas and Q for a early form of wisdom Christology, an alternative to that of Paul. He also treats the negative view of feminine in GThomas and the relation of GThomas to Islamic literature and Albert Schweitzer. He regards Secret Mark, a text discovered in Mar Saba monastery some years ago by Morton Smith, as an earlier stage leading to canonical Mark and examines in all four essays the figure of the "naked youth" in Secret Mark, Mark, and the Villa of the Mysteries The Villa of the Mysteries or Villa dei Misteri is a well preserved ruin of a Roman Villa which lies some 800 meters north-west of Pompeii. Although covered with meters of ash and other volcanic material, the villa sustained only minor damage in the eruption of fresco at Pompeii to argue that he represents an initiatory in·i·ti·a·to·ry adj. 1. Introductory; initial. 2. Tending or used to initiate. Adj. 1. initiatory figure into a Christian mystery. Heavily documented, interesting, challenging, with a provocative glimpse into early Christian literary history and theology. |
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