What Are the Odds?: Serapion, Eusebius, and Secret Mark
This article critiques prior epistolary analysis of the Mar Saba Clementine done by Jeff Jay in comparison with a variety of other Greek and Latin epistles. As a closer match, it brings forward Serapion’s letter on the Gospel of Peter apud Eusebius. Due to a pair of formal and conceptual parallels,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Novum Testamentum
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 364-384 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mark
/ Gospel of Peter
/ Serapion of Antiochia -211
/ Clemens, Alexandrinus ca. 150-215
/ Eusebius of Caesarea 260-339
/ Epistolography
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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Clement of Alexandria
B Eusebius of Caesarea B Serapion of Antioch B Gospel of Mark B Gospel of Peter B Epistolography |
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| Summary: | This article critiques prior epistolary analysis of the Mar Saba Clementine done by Jeff Jay in comparison with a variety of other Greek and Latin epistles. As a closer match, it brings forward Serapion’s letter on the Gospel of Peter apud Eusebius. Due to a pair of formal and conceptual parallels, combined in the Historia ecclesiastica, the article hypothesizes that Morton Smith’s discovery is a modern forgery, which he based upon Eusebius’s excerpt of Serapion in Hist. eccl. 6.12 and upon Eusebius’s paraphrase of the authentic Clement in Hist. eccl. 6.14. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-bja10020 |