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Brent C. Landau

Did Mark the Evangelist Write a Secret Gospel? Did Jesus Have a Relationship with a Young Man? A Fresh Investigation into the Secret Gospel of Mark

April 21, 2023

In 1958, an American biblical scholar named Morton Smith was inspecting the book and manuscript collections of Mar Saba, a 1500-year-old monastery in the Judean wilderness. While leafing through a 17th-century printed book Smith discovered something unexpected–a note in Greek written on the blank pages at the back of the book. At the start of […]

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