Title: I'm not convinced
Product review: I'm just not convinced. A lot of people seem to have a very strong vested interest in seeing Morton Smith proved wrong. And yet his work passed serious academic scrutiny for decades until -- speaking of "convenient" -- after his death, at which point this guy steps up to indict him as a hoaxer."The Secret Gospel" is not Smith's only book-length work of Biblical history. He pursued many of the issues raised by this work in the later "Jesus the Magician," which is a fascinating and persuasive book -- more so, in my opinion, than the earlier volume -- and his arguments and analysis would seem to be valid regardless of the historical status of the "secret" gospel of Mark.I kind of suspect a different sort of intellectual dishonesty at work here: hardcore Christianists who can't stand their core assumptions being called into question.
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