Morton Smith
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Morton Smith's Degrees
- Bachelors Classics Columbia University
- Masters Classics Columbia University
- PhD Classics Columbia University
Why Is Morton Smith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his reported 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.
Morton Smith's Published Works
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Published Works
- Palestinian Parties and Politics That Shaped the Old Testament (1972) (116)
- Jesus the Magician (1978) (114)
- Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition (1961) (86)
- Zealots and Sicarii, Their Origins and Relation (1971) (84)
- The image of God (1958) (50)
- Jewish religious life in the Persian period (1984) (47)
- The Jewish Christians of the Early Centuries of Christianity According to a New Source (1967) (47)
- PROLEGOMENA TO A DISCUSSION OF ARETALOGIES, DIVINE MEN, THE GOSPELS AND JESUS (1971) (46)
- A Comparison of Early Christian and Early Rabbinic Tradition (1963) (43)
- GOODENOUGH'S JEWISH SYMBOLS IN RETROSPECT (1967) (41)
- PALESTINIAN JUDAISM IN THE FIRST CENTURY (1995) (41)
- Clement of Alexandria and Secret Mark: The Score at the End of the First Decade (1982) (40)
- The art of warfare in Biblical lands : in the light of archaeological study. (1963) (34)
- THE JEWISH ELEMENTS IN THE MAGICAL PAPYRI (1996) (33)
- Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period. 700 B.C. to A.D. 100 (1960) (32)
- Book Review: Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults: Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty (1977) (32)
- Principles of physical metallurgy (1956) (30)
- A history of hot dry rock geothermal energy systems (1983) (27)
- Studies in historical method, ancient Israel, ancient Judaism (1996) (26)
- Triumphus. An Inquiry into the Origin, Development and Meaning of the Roman Triumph (1972) (25)
- THE COMMON THEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (1952) (25)
- HELIOS IN PALESTINE (1995) (23)
- THE PRESENT STATE OF OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES (1969) (21)
- The Cambridge History of the Bible (1972) (16)
- ASCENT TO THE HEAVENS AND THE BEGINNING OF CHRISTIANITY (1996) (14)
- Effects of temperature and strain rate on transverse tensile properties of H4LM graphite tested in helium and in vacuum (1964) (14)
- Tannaitic Parallels To The Gospels (1952) (14)
- The U.S. hot dry rock project (1987) (13)
- Cities and Nations of Ancient Syria: An Essay on Political Institutions with Special Reference to the Israelite Kingdoms (1969) (12)
- HISTORICAL METHOD IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION (1968) (11)
- THE GENTILES IN JUDAISM 125 BCE-66 CE (1995) (10)
- Jesus the magician : charlatan or Son of God? (1998) (10)
- THE IMAGE OF GOD: NOTES ON THE HELLENIZATION OF JUDAISM, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO GOODENOUGH'S WORK ON JEWISH SYMBOLS (1995) (10)
- Heroes and Gods. Spiritual Biographies in Antiquity (1966) (9)
- PSEUDEPIGRAPHY IN THE ISRAELITE LITERARY TRADITION (1995) (9)
- What the Bible Really Says (1989) (9)
- TWO ASCENDED TO HEAVEN–JESUS AND THE AUTHOR OF 4Q491 (1996) (9)
- Heroes and gods : spiritual biographies in antiquity (1967) (9)
- EFFECTS OF PRESTRAIN ON THE TENSILE PROPERTIES OF GRAPHITE (1964) (8)
- The Dead Sea Sect in Relation to Ancient Judaism (1961) (7)
- WHAT IS IMPLIED BY THE VARIETY OF MESSIANIC FIGURES (1959) (7)
- Heat extraction from hot, dry, crustal rock (1978) (7)
- The Gentiles in Judaism 125 bce–ce 66 (1999) (7)
- ON THE SHAPE OF GOD AND THE HUMANITY OF GENTILES (1995) (6)
- LONGITUDINAL TENSILE PROPERTIES OF H4LM GRAPHITE IN THE TEMPERATURE RANGE - 253 TO 500 C (1964) (6)
- Studies and texts in folklore, magic, mediaeval romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan archaeology (1972) (6)
- The Origins of Gnosticism (1970) (6)
- Longitudinal tensile behavior of h4lm graphite in nitrogen to 2750 °C (1964) (5)
- The So-Called ‘Biography of David’ in the Books of Samuel and Kings (1951) (5)
- Testing Machine for Short‐Time Creep and Stress‐Rupture Testing at 2000 to 2500°C (1957) (5)
- Relaxation of tensile stress in a reactor graphite at 2000 to 2700°C☆ (1968) (4)
- THE EIGHTH BOOK OF MOSES AND HOW IT GREW (PLEID. J 39 (1996) (4)
- The Veracity of Ezekiel, the Sins of Manasseh, and Jeremiah 44 18 (1975) (4)
- Pauline Worship as Seen by Pagans (1980) (3)
- ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CULTURE OF ISRAEL AND THE MAJOR CULTURES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (1995) (3)
- ON THE WINE GOD IN PALESTINE (GEN 18, JOHN 2, AND ACHILLES TATIUS) (1995) (3)
- Alloy series in physical metallurgy (1956) (3)
- Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1977 (1982) (3)
- New Testament, early Christianity, and magic (1996) (2)
- Comments on Taylor's Commentary on Mark (1955) (2)
- THE ACCOUNT OF SIMON MAGUS IN ACTS 8 (1996) (2)
- The Jewish Elements in the Gospels (1956) (2)
- Messiahs: Robbers, Jurists, Prophets, and Magicians (1977) (2)
- Notes on Goodspeed's "Problems of New Testament Translation" (1945) (2)
- Studies in Jewish and Christian History, Part Two (1983) (2)
- Psalm 151, David, Jesus, and Orpheus (1981) (2)
- The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic, 200 B.C.-A.D. 100, by D. S. Russell. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1964. 464 pp. $7.50 (1965) (2)
- Jo. Tzetzae Commentarii in Aristophanem. Pars IV, Fasc. III: Commentarium in Ranas et in Aves, Argumentum Equitum (1961) (2)
- TRANSFORMATION BY BURIAL (1 COR 15:35-49; ROM 6:3-5 AND 8:9-11) (1996) (2)
- Studies in the Cult of Yahweh: Volume 2. New Testament, Early Christianity, Magica (1996) (2)
- On the New Inscription from Serra Orlando (1959) (2)
- Time-dependent strengthening of graphite in tension at 2500°C☆ (1965) (2)
- A History of the Jews in Babylonia: III. From Shapur I to Shapur II; IV. The Age of Shapur II; V. Later Sasanian Times (1970) (2)
- Mt. 5.43: ‘Hate Thine Enemy’ (1952) (2)
- On the wine God in Palestine (1996) (2)
- HOW MAGIC WAS CHANGED BY THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITY (1996) (2)
- Book Review: The Charismatic Figure as Miracle Worker (1974) (1)
- Further Notes on ‘A Jewish Gnostic Amulet of the Roman Period’ (1959) (1)
- The Manuscript Tradition of Isidore of Pelusium (1954) (1)
- The Ancient Greeks (1960) (1)
- 人造地熱貯留層(Man-Made Geothermal Reservoirs,Proceeding 2nd UN Symp.on Develop.Use of Geother.Resources,vol.3,1975) (1979) (1)
- Geothermal energy: the furnace in the basement (1978) (1)
- ‘God's Begetting the Messiah’ in IQSA (1959) (1)
- Paul's Arguments as Evidence of the Christianity from which he Diverged (1986) (1)
- The Tosefta, according to the Codex Vienna, with Variants from the Codex Erfurt, Genizah MSS. and Editio Princeps: Vol. I, Zera'im; Tosefta Ki-fshufah, a Comprehensive Commentary on the Tosefta: Vols. I and II, Zeralim (1956) (1)
- SALVATION IN THE GOSPELS, PAUL, AND THE MAGICAL PAPYRI (1996) (1)
- P LEID J 395 (PGM XIII) AND ITS CREATION LEGEND (1996) (1)
- Aramaic Studies and the Study of the New Testament (1958) (1)
- The Cambridge History of the Bible@@@The West from the Reformation to the Present Day@@@From the Beginning to Jerome@@@The West from the Fathers to the Reformation (1972) (1)
- THE REASON FOR THE PERSECUTION OF PAUL AND THE OBSCURITY OF ACTS (1996) (1)
- The Religions of the Roman Empire, by John Ferguson. 296 pp. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1970. $8.50 (1971) (0)
- APPENDIX F. CLEMENT’S QUOTATION OF MK. 10. 17–31 (1973) (0)
- Abstracts (1976) (0)
- Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893-1965) (1966) (0)
- The Synoptic Problem in Rabbinic Literature, a Correction (1988) (0)
- RELIGIONS OF WESTREN ANTIQUITY (1981) (0)
- RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD (1995) (0)
- A Byzantine Panegyric Collection with an Unknown Homily for the Annunciation (1959) (0)
- Studies in Jewish and Christian History, Part One (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums IX). By Elias Bickerman. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. x+288 pages. 110 guilders. ISBN 90-04-04395-0 (1977) (0)
- Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Vol. II: Lacus Iuturnae-Volcanal (1963) (0)
- APPENDIX G. TYPE, FREQUENCY, AND DISTRIBUTION OF PARALLELS (1973) (0)
- Samothrace. Vol. I, The Ancient Literary Sources (1960) (0)
- Abstracts (1975) (0)
- Jo. Tzetzae Commentarii in Aristophanem. Fasc. II: Commentarium in Nubes (1961) (0)
- PLUTARCH, DE SUPERSTITIONE (MORALIA 164E-171F) (1996) (0)
- Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Vol. I (1962) (0)
- Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy Development Program Annual Report Fiscal Year 1988 (1988) (0)
- APPENDIX D. CLEMENT'S QUOTATIONS FROM MK. (1973) (0)
- Use of a Hydraulically Bulged Liner for Hydraulic Fracturing in EE-2 (1981) (0)
- A reply to the comments of Wade and Gillis (1969) (0)
- Introductory Material for Experiment 2032 Report (1983) (0)
- A NOTE ON SOME JEWISH ASSIMILATIONISTS: THE ANGELS (P. BERLIN 5025b, P. LOUVRE 2391) (1996) (0)
- On the Problem of Method in the Study of Rabbinic Literature (1973) (0)
- The World History of the Jewish People. Volume 7, The Herodian Period (1977) (0)
- Timothy David Barnes. Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study. New York: Oxford University Press. 1971. Pp. viii, 320. $20.50 (1974) (0)
- THE FRAGMENT TRANSLATION, TRANSCRIPTION, AND PHOTOGRAPHS (1973) (0)
- O'Keefe's "Social Theory of Magic" (1984) (0)
- BIBLICAL AND BIBLICAL-THEOLOGICAL STUDIES (1968) (0)
- TERMINOLOGICAL BOOBYTRAPS AND REAL PROBLEMS IN SECOND-TEMPLE JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN STUDIES (1995) (0)
- Jo. Tzetzae Commentarii in Aristophanem. Fasc. I: Prolegomena et Commentarium in Plutum (1961) (0)
- APPENDIX C. CLAUSULAE (1973) (0)
- APPENDIX B. THE EVIDENCE CONCERNING CARPOCRATES (1973) (0)
- MESSIAHS: ROBBERS, JURISTS, PROPHETS (1996) (0)
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Map Is Not Territory Jonathan Z. Smith Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, 23 Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978. Pp. xvi + 329 (1979) (0)
- New Fragments of Scholia on Sophocles’ Ajax (1960) (0)
- APPENDIX E. GOSPEL PHRASES AND THEIR PARALLELS (1973) (0)
- APPENDIX A. PALAEOGRAPHIG PECULIARITIES (1973) (0)
- Frank M. Snowden, Jr. Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1970. Pp. xxiv, 364. $12.50 (1971) (0)
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