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Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982

By Guy G. Stroumsa

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2008
ISBN
9004168397, 9789004168398
ISSN
1570-078X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1081900 bytes)
Series
Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 9
Pages
xxiv+206\233
Topic
Religion
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-03-31 15:48:59

Description

The American historian of ancient religions Morton Smith (1915-1991), had studied with the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), while 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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