Surat Mar Saba

Surat Mar Saba adalah sebuah dokumen Yunani yang dilaporkan oleh cendekiawan Morton Smith pada 1973 yang ia temukan di perpustakaan biara Mar Saba pada 1958. Dokumen tersebut telah hilang dan kini hanya dilestarikan dalam dua set foto. Teks tersebut ditujukan sebagai surat Klemens dari Aleksandria dan berisi satu-satunya rujukan yang diketahui kepada "Injil Rahasia Markus".

Catatan

Referensi

• Morton Smith, Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark Harvard University Press, 1973 [the scholarly version].
• Morton Smith, The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark, 1981 [the popular version].
• Stephen C. Carlson, Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark, Baylor University Press, 2005.
• Scott G. Brown,Mark's Other Gospel: Rethinking Morton Smith's Controversial Discovery Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
• Peter Jeffery, The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery (Yale University Press, 2006 ISBN 0-300-11760-4)
• Catholic Encyclopedia, "Clement of Alexandria," http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04045a.htm

Pranala luar

• What happened to the copy of Clement's letter?
• Is the Secret Gospel of Mark a Modern Forgery Based on a Cheesy Christian Novel?
• Second Thoughts on the Secret Gospel by Robert M Price
• Charles W. Hedrick with Nikolaos Olympiou, "Secret Mark": contains account of manuscript history and color images of the manuscript
• Review of Stephen Carlson's "The Gospel Hoax" - review of book which presents evidence that Smith created Secret Mark as a hoax.
• Wieland Wilker, "Secret Gospel of Mark Homepage": detailed description of the manuscript, images, Greek and English text, current developments.
• Early Christian Writings website: the "Mar Saba Letter" of Clement
• The Scriptorium.