Morton Smith
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Morton Smith (May 29, 1915 in Philadelphia, – July 11, 1991 in New York City) was a Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University in New York City. He is best known for the controversies surrounding his discovery of part of a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in 1958. The letter, called the Mar Saba letter, has been called a hoax by Stephen C. Carlson in The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark.
He published a controversial book called "Jesus the Magician: Charlatan or Son of God" in 1978 about the Historical Jesus.
Smith also wrote and published a number of essays and studies of religion in the Greco-Roman period.
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