Endnote 12 – The Secret Gospel of Mark

Donald Harman Akenson, Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), p. 87; compare p. 85. See also Neusner, Foreword to Birger Gerhardsson, Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity and Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (1961 and 1964; reprint; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998), p. xxvii: “I need not remind readers of this reprint of the scandal of Smith’s ‘sensational discovery’ of the Clement fragment, the original of which no one but Smith was permitted [sic] to examine.”