Bart Ehrman covers this in Lost Christianities, as well as on his blog in a recent entry. (https://ehrmanblog.org/the-discovery-of-a-lifetime-a-secret-gospel-of-mark/). Two somewhat recent works argue Smith forged the document. See Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax (2005) and Peter Jeffrey, The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled (2007).

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The label Secret Gospel of Mark designates two passages which are supposed to be part of an ancient, expanded version of the Gospel of Mark. The secret passages were only intended to be read by those who had been thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of the ancient Alexandrian church, not by all Christians. Information about…

In 1958, Morton Smith found a letter of Clement of Alexandria at the Mar Saba monastary near the city of Jerusalem. The Secret Gospel of Mark is known only from the references in this letter. Although there has been some controversy over the letter, today it is generally agreed that the letter is authentic correspondence…

Robert J. Miller, ed., The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version (Sonoma, CA: Polebridge Press 1992), pp. 393-401. – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060655879/peterkirby Ron Cameron, ed., The Other Gospels: Non-Canonical Gospel Texts (Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press 1982), pp. 76-82. – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718825969/peterkirby John Dominic Crossan, Four Other Gospels (Minneapolis, MN: Winston Press 1985), pp. 125-181. – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944344240/peterkirby Helmut Koester,…

Origen on Matthew, x. 17. (They of Nazareth thought that Jesus) was the son of Joseph and Mary: but the brothers of Jesus some (founding on a tradition of the Gospel entitled according to Peter or of the Book of James) say were sons of Joseph by a former wife who had lived with him…

F. F. Bruce writes (Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament, p. 93):The docetic note in this narrative appears in the statement that Jesus, while being crucified, ‘remained silent, as though he felt no pain’, and in the account of his death. It carefully avoids saying that he died, preferring to say that he…

Helmut Koester, Ancient Christian Gospels (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press 1990), pp. 205-216. – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0334024501/peterkirby John Dominic Crossan, Four Other Gospels (Minneapolis, MN: Winston Press 1985), pp. 65-87. – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0944344240/peterkirby Ron Cameron, ed., The Other Gospels: Non-Canonical Gospel Texts (Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press 1982), pp. 72-75. – http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718825969/peterkirby Robert J. Miller, ed., The Complete Gospels:…

The Egerton Gospel is also known as Papyrus Egerton 2. It is known from an ancient manuscript that is rivaled only by the John Rylands fragment p52 in its antiquity. Ron Cameron states in his introduction in The Other Gospels, “On paleographical grounds the papyrus has been assigned a date in the first half of…

IntroductionWhile I was looking into 1 John, I peeked into the so-called “Egerton Gospel”. This is a common reconstruction of what the Jesus Seminar have labeled “Egerton 1:4”: (14/14) [you] have hoped.” Then t[h]ey [said],(15/15) “We know that through Moses(16/16) God [spoke], but you, we do not know(17/17) [where you are from.] When Jesus replied,And…