{"id":1988,"date":"2009-10-28T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/raising-the-bar-for-discussion-of-the-secret-gospel-of-mark\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T13:01:00","slug":"raising-the-bar-for-discussion-of-the-secret-gospel-of-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/raising-the-bar-for-discussion-of-the-secret-gospel-of-mark.html","title":{"rendered":"Raising the BAR for discussion of the Secret Gospel of Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For those who don\u2019t get the pun, <em>BAR<\/em> \u2013 that is, <em>Biblical Archaeology Review<\/em> \u2013 has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/bar\/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&amp;Volume=35&amp;Issue=06&amp;ArticleID=21&amp;Page=0&amp;UserID=0&amp;\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article in their latest issue which can also be read online, about the Secret Gospel of Mark<\/a>. It is by Charles W. Hedrick and the title is \u201c\u2018Secret Mark\u2019: An Amazing Discovery\u201d <em>BAR<\/em> 35:06, Nov\/Dec 2009.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1534028717042229334?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don\u2019t get the pun, BAR \u2013 that is, Biblical Archaeology Review \u2013 has an article in their latest issue which can also be read online, about the Secret Gospel of Mark. It is by Charles W. 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