Gospel of Mark

Alkisah, pendedahan bahwa pihak Gereja-gereja telah merahsiakan satu kitab, the Gospel of Mark, kerana kandungannya yang amat mengaibkan Jesus Kristus.

Was It a Hoax? Debate on a ‘Secret Mark’ Gospel Resumes
By PETER STEINFELS

Imagine the discovery of a previously unknown Gospel of Mark, a secret text suppressed by church authorities that pictured Jesus initiating his disciples with a hallucinatory, nocturnal and quite possibly homosexual rite. Imagine the headlines, the four-alarm book promotion and the cable network special.

Ho-hum, you say? Isn’t it simply Easter season, when fresh Gnostic gospels or dubious ossuaries show up like spring daffodils?

Ah, but those with long memories know that just such a “secret Gospel of Mark” once did make headlines. In 1973, Morton Smith published both a dense scholarly tome (“Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark,” Harvard University Press) and a popular book (“The Secret Gospel,” Harper & Row) describing a manuscript that he had found in a Greek Orthodox monastery south of Jerusalem.

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