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Tony Burke drew attention to the publication of an interesting article about the Secret Gospel of Mark: Roger Viklund and Timo S. Paananen, \u201cDistortion of the Scribal Hand in the Images of Clement\u2019s Letter to Theodore,\u201d\u00a0Vigiliae Christianae\u00a067 (2013): 235-247. The article is based on material which had previously been made available online by one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":14854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[3533,4376,6961,7716,10936,10998,11862,12873],"class_list":["post-14835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secret-gospel-of-mark","tag-forgery","tag-handwriting","tag-manuscript","tag-morton-smith","tag-scribe","tag-secret-gospel-of-mark","tag-stephen-carlson","tag-tremor"],"yoast_head":"\n
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