Peter Jeffery, The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11760-8
Library of Congress classification BS2860.S42 J44 2006
Dewey Decimal classification 229/.8 22
Publisher’s description: “Jeffery unravels the answers to the mystery”
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300117604
The Library of Congress is, as usual, non-committal.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006014035-d.html
“a learned and lively book” – Stephen Goranson
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/message/21590
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/textualcriticism/message/2715
“fascinating” -- Stephen C. Carlson
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2006/11/peter-jeffery-on-secret-mark.html
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2006/04/forthcoming-book-on-secret-mark.html
“definitive debunking of the Secret Mark hoax” – Loren Rosson III
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/11/jeffery-on-secret-mark.html
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-secret-mark.html
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/11/peter-jeffery-unveiled.html
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2006/11/busybody-peter-jeffery-unveiled.html
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/12/relax-and-enjoy-this.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/message/21591
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2007/01/controversial-studies-and-question-of_30.html
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=187083
“discusses many interesting aspects of the cultural construction of homosexuality” – Wayne R. Dynes
http://dyneslines.blogspot.com/2006/11/imitatio-christi-or-getting-naked-for.html
http://gayspecies.blogspot.com/2006/11/watch-and-learn.html
"*****" (from those who read it); "*" (from those who didn't) -- Amazon.com
(no comment) -- вселенский трамвай
http://zav-mag.livejournal.com/2006/12/21/
"The Agony of Morton Smith"
http://dyneslines.blogspot.com/2008/01/agony-of-morton-smith.html
"Really, it is time for 'CSI: Academia.'" -- Peter Steinfels, New York Times (March 31, 2007, p. A12)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/us/31beliefs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Comments on the Times story:
http://www.gaynz.com/aarticles/templates/features.asp?articleid=1756&zoneid=16
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2007/03/secret-mark-in-new-york-times.html
http://www.theolog.org/blog/2007/04/the_secret_gosp.html
http://www.bib-arch.org/hoax/bswbHoaxMainPage.asp
http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/05/18/was_jesus_gay_no_but_morton_smith_thought_so.php
http://codexceltica.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-so-christian-year.html
http://cheatseekingmissiles.blogspot.com/2007/04/good-friday-bad-bad-media.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810095/posts
http://www.cultureandmedia.com/eoc/2007/200704041524.aspx
http://tzvee.blogspot.com/2007/03/ny-times-morton-smith-hoax-lives-on.html
"a hermeneutics of desperation" -- Scott G. Brown
http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/5627_5944.pdf
Comments on the Brown review:
http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2007/09/scott-brown-reviews-peter-jeffery.html
http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2007/09/review-of-biblical-literature-latest_18.html
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2007/09/rbl-review-of-peter-jeffery.html
http://www.tonychartrand-burke.com/apocryphicity/2007/10/04/fragments-agrapha-and-secret-mark/
http://markwaterman.blogspot.com/2007/09/whopping-book-review-secret-gospel-of.html
http://piccolozaccheo.splinder.com/post/14317737
http://www.palmtreegarden.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=26337
My initial response to Brown (first installment). It is unlikely that I will complete this one.
www.music.princeton.edu/~jeffery/replytobrown.pdf
A more concise reply to Brown, which the Review of Biblical Literature refused to publish.
http://music.princeton.edu/~jeffery/Review%20of%20Biblical%20Literature-Jeffery%20reply%20to%20Brown.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/4rlssk.
Comments on my reply to Brown
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2008/04/peter-jeffery-replies-to-scott-brown.html
http://forbiddengospels.blogspot.com/2008/04/peter-jefferys-response-to-scott-brown.html
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Secret/SecMark-News.html
http://piccolozaccheo.splinder.com/post/16760047/prosegue+il+dibattito+sul+Vang
http://www.tonychartrand-burke.com/apocryphicity/2008/04/27/jeffery-vs-brown-on-secret-mark/
A "Secret Mark feast" which took place at Claremont Graduate University, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity:
http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=415
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2008/03/secret-mark-panel-discussion.html
http://blog.bible.org/primetimejesus/content/secret-mark%3A-debate-not-over
http://www.tonychartrand-burke.com/apocryphicity/2008/03/03/panel-on-secret-mark/
"This careful work . . . provide[s] an extremely damaging case against Smith and his Secret Mark."
Robert L. Webb, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 5 (2007) 216. http://jhj.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/2/205.pdf
". . . there is indeed more to consider and maybe the pendulum has moved slightly in the negative direction."
Paul Foster, "Secret Mark Again," The Expository Times 119/1 (October 2007) 50-51. http://ext.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/119/1/50
"Peter Jeffery is probably the cleverest of Smith's assailants to date."
W. V. Harris, "A Bible Fantasy," Times Literary Supplement No. 5455 (19 October 2007) 23. http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25371-2649536,00.html
"Students and teachers of liturgical history . . . need to read this book and to do so soon! . . . From this point on it will be difficult to say anything about early Lent and Christian initiation without reference to this book."
Maxwell E. Johnson, Worship 82/1 (January 2008) 85-89.
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