Endnote 11 – The Secret Gospel of Mark

Except for the excerpt from the back cover of The Secret Gospel, the quotations in this paragraph are from Jacob Neusner, “Time to Reexamine Smith’s Altogether-Too-Secret ‘Secret Gospel,’” in his, Are There Really Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels? A Refutation of Morton Smith (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), pp. 27–31; and Jacob Neusner and Noam M.M. Neusner, The Price of Excellence: Universities in Conflict during the Cold War Era (New York: Continuum, 1995), p. 78. An account of Smith’s public dissociation from Neusner can be found in Hershel Shanks, “Annual Meetings Offer Intellectual Bazaar and Moments of High Drama,” BAR 11:02.