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Publication year: 2008
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| Series: | Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 9 |
| ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: | 978 90 04 16839 8 |
| ISBN-10: | 90 04 16839 7 |
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| Cover: | Hardback |
| Number of pages: | xxiv, 204 pp. |
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| List price: | € 89.00 / US$ 132.00 |
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Readership
All those interested in early Christianity and its Jewish matrix, and in the history of religions in the twenteith century.
About the author(s)
Guy G. Stroumsa, PhD (Harvard, 1978), is the Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Christianity. He has published extensively on the history of religions in late antiquity. Among his recent works: La fin du sacrifice: les mutations religieuses de l'antiquite tardive (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005) and Le rire du Christ (Paris: Bayard, 2006).
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The American historian of ancient religions, Morton Smith (1915-1991), studied with the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), when he was in Jerusalem during the Second World War. After the war, the two started a long, fascinating and at times intense correspondence that ended only with Scholem's death. These letters, found in the Scholem archive in the National Library in Jerusalem, provide a rare perspective on the world and the approach of two leading historians of religion in the twentieth century. They also shed important new light upon Smith's discovery of a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria referring to a secret Gospel of Mark.
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