Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Secret Gospel of Mark is a supposed non-canonical Christian gospel that is the subject of the Mar Saba letter, a previously unknown letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria that Morton Smith claimed to have found in Mar Saba monastery in 1958. The gospel is known exclusively from this letter, which contains two passages said to be quotations from it. The letter describes Secret Mark as an expanded version of the canonical Gospel of Mark with some episodes elucidated, written for an initiated elite. Smith claimed to have discovered the Mar Saba letter transcribed into the endpapers of a 17th-century printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch. The finding caused a sensation, but was soon met with accusations of forgery. The situation was complicated when the original manuscript was transferred to another monastery and access was restricted (at this time, the manuscript is believed to be lost). Further research relied upon photographs and copies, including those made by Smith himself. Scholars have expressed a variety of opinions regarding the authenticity of the letter and the gospel described therein.

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