![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, it was a secret letter to his disciple Theodore. What are the contents of those pages? Ostensibly, the document was a previously unknown letter written by the early church father Clement of Alexandria. Before this happened, they were photographed in color (with clear evidences of tears on one side of the pages). Subsequently, the pages in question have disappeared. ![]() Morton Smith photographed the three handwritten pages, returning the volume to its original place in the library. The manuscript in question was fairly small, consisting of three pages of Greek manuscript bound in as end-papers to another book, an edition of the letters of St. He is now best known for his discovery of a text in the Mar Saba monastery in Palestine, and his controversial interpretation of it. In all likelihood he was a closeted homosexual, a status that contributed to his (somewhat gingerly) preoccupation with the subject. Morton Smith ((1915-1991) was a professor of ancient history at Columbia University, where he specialized in Biblical scholarship. ![]()
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