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"Τὰ μὲν οὖν τῆς πίστεως μυστήρια πάντων ἐστὶ χρῆ ταμιεύεσθαι· τὸ μυστικὸν καὶ ἀπόρρητον λόγον, ὃν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ἐδίδαξεν. Μηδὲν τὸ ἅγιον τοῖς κυσὶ δότε, μηδὲ βάλῆτε τοὺς μαργαρίτας ἔμπροσθεν τῶν χοίρων. Εἰ γὰρ κοινῇ τὸν ἀπόρρητον τοῦ λόγου διδάξωμεν, τοῦτο μὲν χλευάσομεν, τοῦτο δὲ τοῖς βαναύσοις καὶ καταφρονηταῖς καταράντες." [Clement, Stromata 1.1]

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The Greatest Secret of All

Primary Sources Related to Clement, Theodore and Their Correspondence

1. Ancient Background
Clement of Alexandria 195 CE Stromateis (Greek Text)
Clement of Alexandria 195 CE the Stromateis (English Translation)
Clement of Alexandria 195 CE Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? (Greek Text)
Clement of Alexandrian 195 CE Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? (English Translation)
Clement of Alexandria Letter to Theodore (Greek Text)
Clement of Alexandria Letter to Theodore (Critical English/Greek Translation/Transcription) Some Errors Resulting from Sloppiness
Origen of Alexandria 230 CE Letter to Theodore (Greek Text)
Origen of Alexandria 230 CE Letter to Theodore (English Translation)
Pierre Nautin On the Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen in the Caesarea Library (also) Being Attributed to Theodore
Pseudo-Basil/Clement of Alexandria Epistle 366 Letter to Urbicius (Greek Text)
Pseudo-Basil/Clement of Alexandria Epistle 366 Letter to Urbicius (English Translation)
Eusebius of Caesarea 325 CE Historia Ecclesiastica (Greek Text)
Gregory of Nyssa 390 CE De vita Gregorii Thaumaturgi (Greek Text)
2. Transmission Through the Monasteries
John of Damascus (700 CE) Sacred Parallels Writing at the Mar Saba Monastery Making Extensive Citations of a Collection of Letters of Clement of Alexandria
Ishodad of Merv Commentary on the Gospel of Mark c. 850 CE Mentioning "Clement of Alexandria ... in his Great Letter" = ܒܐܓܪܬܗ ܗܿܝ ܪܒܬܐ Saying Things Found and Not Found in Stromateis 3
Niketas the Paphlagonian 876 CE Encomium on the Holy, Glorious, and All-Famous Twelve Apostles (Synaxarion) "And thus, Stripping off the Whole Mortal and Corruptible Nature, and Becoming Naked to the Naked (γυμνοὶ γυμνῷ), and Pure to the Purest, having Conversed with the Word."
Unknown Article in Nea Sion Quentin Quesnell Reports Librarian Kallistos Dourvas Citing as Proof of Antiquity of the Letter in a Conversation June 1, 1983 That the Text was Produced at Mar Saba in the 16 - 17th Centuries.
J Rendel Harris Review of Theodore Zahn 1884 CE Forschungen zur Geschichte des Neutestamentlichen Kanons und der altkirchlichen Literatur Supplementum Clementinum "We subjoin seven new fragments of Clement from the Par. Rup. John of Damascus Sacra Parallela" Written at the Mar Saba Monastery
3. Scholarly Re-Discovery
Morton Smith 1958 CE Photo of Manuscript in Mar Saba Monastery Page 1
Morton Smith 1958 CE Photo of Manuscript in Mar Saba Monastery Page 2
Morton Smith 1958 CE Photo of Manuscript in Mar Saba Monastery Page 3
Morton Smith Transcription 1958 CE Sent to Library of Congress
Morton Smith 1973 CE (Academic Book) Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark
Morton Smith 1973 CE (Book) The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel
Quentin Quesnell 1975 CE (Academic Paper) The Mar Saba Clementine. A Question of Evidence
Official Letter from the Jerusalem Patriarchate June 18, 1976 CE "a Handwritten Letter Referring to the Name 'Clementios Stromateos' and Addressed to Someone Named Theodoros, Unpublished and Undisputed as far as Concerning its Authenticity."
Thomas Talley 1981 CE (Academic Paper) Liturgical Time in the Early Church
Quentin Quesnell June 1983 CE Diary Jerusalem, Israel
Quentin Quesnell/Naro Galbandian/Dick Fish 1983 CE "Blow Up" Photo Top of Page 1
Quentin Quesnell/Naro Galbandian/Dick Fish 1983 CE "Blow Up" Photo Bottom of Page 1
Quentin Quesnell/Naro Galbandian/Dick Fish 1983 CE "Blow Up" Photo Top of Page 2
Quentin Quesnell/Naro Galbandian/Dick Fish 1983 CE "Blow Up" Photo Bottom of Page 2
Quentin Quesnell/Naro Galbandian/Dick Fish 1983 CE "Blow Up" PhotoTop of Page 3
Quentin Quesnell/Naro Galbandian/Dick Fish 1983 CE "Blow Up" Photo Bottom of Page 3
Quentin Quesnell June 9, 1983 CE (Informal Study) Attempts at Imitating Handwriting After a Decade of Examining Manuscript
Quentin Quesnell June 1 - 20, 1983 (Unpublished and Unfinished Study) "This is a Study Line by Line Showing that There were Phrases and Sentences in Clement which Could Have Served as Models for Almost Everything in the Letter."
Colin Duckworth and Eric Osborn 1985 CE (Academic Paper) Clement of Alexandria's "Hypotyposes": A French Eighteenth-Century Sighting
Thomas Talley 1986 CE (Academic Book) The Origins of the Liturgical Year. New York
Winsome Munro 1992 CE (Academic Paper) Women Disciples: Light from Secret Mark
Andrew Criddle 1995 CE (Academic Paper) On the Mar Saba Letter Attributed to Clement of Alexandria
Marvin Meyer 2003 (Academic Book) Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark
Scott Brown 2005 (Doctoral Thesis) Mark's Other Gospel
Stephen Carlson 2005 (Book) Gospel Hoax
Allan J. Pantuck and Scott G. Brown 2008 (Academic Paper) “Morton Smith as M. Madiotes: Stephen Carlson’s Attribution of Secret Mark to a Bald Swindler”
Agamemnon Tselikas 2009 (Popular Journal Article) Biblical Archaeological Review Handwriting Report
Andrew R. Solow and Woollcott K. Smith 2009 (Academic Paper) A Statistical Problem Concerning the Mar Saba Letter
Scott G. Brown and Allan J. Pantuck 2010 (Academic Paper) Stephen Carlson’s Questionable Questioned Document Examination
Nathan Hardy 2012 (Academic Paper) Mystery and Memory St. Mark, Alexandrian Christianity, and the Evidence Shrouded in Mystery
Smith College 2013 Memorial for Quentin Quesnell
Timo Paananen Roger Viklund 2015 (Academic Paper) An Eighteenth-Century Manuscript: Control of the Scribal Hand in Clement’s Letter to Theodore
Stephan Huller Daniel Gullotta 2017 (Academic Paper) Quentin Quesnell's Secret Mark Secret
Michael T Zeddies 2017 (Academic Paper) Did Origen Write the Letter to Theodore?
Timo Paananen 2019 (Doctoral Thesis) A Study in Authenticity : Admissible Concealed Indicators of Authority and Other Features of Forgeries : A Case Study on Clement of Alexandria, Letter to Theodore, and the Longer Gospel of Mark
Enrico Tuccinardi 2020 (Academic Paper) A Stylometric Analysis of the Mar Saba Letter Attributed to Clement of Alexandria
Panayiotis Tzamalikos 2020 (Academic Book) Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew Codices Sabaiticus (= Mar Saba) 232 & Holy Cross 104, Jerusalem
"Secret Gospel of Mark" added to Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior (ECM) of the Gospel of Mark (2021)
Christian-B. Amphoux 2022 La Vieille latine témoin du Prôto-Marc
Nathan Porter 2023 (Academic Paper) “A Newly Identified Letter of Valentinus on Jesus’s Digestive System: Ps.-Basil of Caesarea’s ep. 366”.
Yale University 2023 "Celebrates" Morton Smith's Discovery as Part of Gay Pride Month
Brent Landau Geoffrey Smith 2023 (Academic Book) The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar
Ariel Sabar Is There a Secret Gospel of Mark? 2024 (Popular Magazine Article) Atlantic Magazine

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