The Secret Gospel of Mark: Christianity’s Greatest Hoax?
A lost gospel. A missing manuscript. And an extraordinary accusation of forgery.
Mike Bird talks to New Testament scholar Stephen Carlson about the Secret Gospel of Mark, the sensational text discovered by Morton Smith in 1958.
Was it an authentic window into early Christianity, an ancient fake, or an elaborate modern hoax?
Carlson reveals the linguistic clues, anachronisms and apparent “Easter eggs” that led him to make the case against one of biblical scholarship’s most controversial discoveries.
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