Morton Smith
Historian, Author
1915 – 1991
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Who was Morton Smith?
Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his controversial discovery of the Mar Saba letter, 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. This letter fragment has had many names, from The Secret Gospel through The Mar Saba Fragment and the Theodoros.
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- Born
- May 29, 1915
Philadelphia - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard College
- PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
( - 1948) - Doctor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School
Theology
( - 1957)
- Employment
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Manhattan
( - 1991/07/11)
- Manhattan
- Died
- Jul 11, 1991
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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