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Tony Burke has shared further thoughts from the Secret Mark conference<\/a>, and it includes some good reasons to think that Morton Smith could not have forged the Secret Gospel of Mark, as well as reasons to think that he didn\u2019t<\/em>, including the fact that he spent six years transcribing, translating, and developing his interpretation of\u00a0the manuscript, which would be strange if he wrote it. Click through for further details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tony Burke has shared further thoughts from the Secret Mark conference, and it includes some good reasons to think that Morton Smith could not have forged the Secret Gospel of Mark, as well as reasons to think that he didn\u2019t, including the fact that he spent six years transcribing, translating, and developing his interpretation of\u00a0the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nReasons to Conclude that Morton Smith did not Forge the Secret Gospel of Mark<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tony Burke has shared further thoughts from the Secret Mark conference, and it includes some good reasons to think that Morton Smith could not have forged\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/reasons-to-conclude-that-morton-smith-did-not-forge-the-secret-gospel-of-mark.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reasons to Conclude that Morton Smith did not Forge the Secret Gospel of Mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tony Burke has shared further thoughts from the Secret Mark conference, and it includes some good reasons to think that Morton Smith could not have forged\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/reasons-to-conclude-that-morton-smith-did-not-forge-the-secret-gospel-of-mark.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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