Morton Smith (28 Mei 1915 – 11 Juli 1991) adalah seorang profesor sejarah kuno Amerika Serikat di Columbia University. Ia dikenal karena dikabarkan menemukan surat Mar Saba, sebuah surat yang diatribusikan kepada Klemens dari Aleksandria yang berisi Injil Rahasia Markus, saat mengunjungi biara di Mar Saba pada 1958.
| Morton Smith | |
|---|---|
Morton Smith | |
| Lahir | 28 Mei 1915 Philadelphia |
| Meninggal | 11 Juli 1991 (umur 76) Manhattan |
| Pekerjaan | Sejarawan |
Referensi sunting
- Neusner, Jacob, Christianity, Judaism, and other Greco-Roman Cults. Part 1: New Testament, ed. J. Neusner, Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, vol 1, New Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1975), p. ix.
- Calder III, William M. “Smith, Morton”, in Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists, Ward W. Briggs, Jr., (ed.) (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 600.
Daftar pustaka sunting
- Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax, Baylor University Press, 2005.
- Scott G. Brown, Mark's Other Gospel, Wilfrid Laurier, 2005.
- Scott G. Brown, Factualizing the Folklore: Stephen Carlson's case against Morton Smith, Harvard Theological Review, July 1, 2006. Available on-line (see below).
- Peter Jeffery, The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled, Yale University Press, 2006.
- Charles W. Hedrick and Nikolaos Olympiou, Secret Mark, in The Fourth R 13:5 (2000): 3–11, 14–16. Contains color plates of the manuscript. Available on-line (see below).
- Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa,Comments on Charles Hedrick’s Article: A Testimony, Journal of Early Christian Studies 11:2 (Summer 2003): 147–53. Tells about the four scholars who saw the manuscript in the Mar Saba library.
Pranala luar sunting
- Morton Smith at the Database of Classical Scholars
- contains Smith's complete English translation of the manuscript, his original photos of it, the Greek text, and plenty of background material
- contains much more information about the physical history of the manuscript, and the four scholars who actually saw it. In addition, it tells us that the second set of photographs (done by the Jerusalem library) were in color, and have been published
- Second Thoughts on the Secret Gospel, by Robert M Price
- Secret Mark, by Hedrick and Olympiou 2012-06-25 di Wayback Machine. (with color plates)
- Factualizing the Folklore: abstract of Brown's article
- "Morton Smith's translation of Hekhalot Rabbati"
- Biblical Archaeology Society