author was raised shortly after its first publication in 1973, and has often been reasserted in the years since Morton Smith's death in 1991. Yet the fragments of the 'Secret Gospel of Mark' are often still interpreted on the provisional assumption that the letter containing them is genuine....
Gospel According to Mark, second of the four New Testament Gospels and, with Matthew and Luke, one of the three Synoptic Gospels. It is the shortest and the earliest of the four Gospels and is traditionally attributed to St. Mark, a disciple of St. Peter