Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Brown Scott G.
Title : Mark's other Gospel Rethinking Morton Smith’s Controversial Discovery
Year : 2005

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A number of people contributed in important ways to the production of this book. Above all, I want to thank my family for all the encouragement and support they gave me. Without their patience and generosity, this book would never have come about. I am also indebted to numerous scholars and friends. When this book was still a dissertation, my supervisor, Leif Vaage, read through the manuscript three times, offering insightful feedback on practically every page; his thoroughness and high standards made this a much better work. Michel Desjardins read the dissertation manuscript twice and corrected more scribal errors than I care to admit. Schuyler Brown and John Kloppenborg took turns supervising me during the period before my general exams. I want to thank the former for directing me to a form of biblical scholarship that is theoretically intelligible; the latter, for directing me away from thesis topics that would never have been as interesting as this one. I am likewise indebted to the series editor, Peter Richardson, under whose guidance this book lost most of the trappings of a dissertation. Peter and the staff at Wilfrid Laurier University Press were easy to work with and very accommodating of my concerns. My work has also benefited greatly from my ongoing correspondence with Charles W. Hedrick and from the insightful comments of the two anonymous appraisers for the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. Other scholars whom I have not yet had the pleasure to meet took the time to reflect on my work or answer my inquiries and send me materials. I will mention them in roughly the order in which I corresponded with them. Quentin Quesnell amiably and generously assisted my investigation by clarifying issues pertaining to his article on longer Mark and offering feedback on the finished dissertation. Shawn Eyer provided me with copies of some materials I could not locate. Andrew Criddle offered me detailed information about the methodology he employed in his article. And Marvin Meyer took on the role of external reviewer for my dissertation late in 1998. Many more scholars offered me their insights after I defended my dissertation in February 1999, and their assistance helped shape this revised and updated version. Edward C. Hobbs thoughtfully replied to numerous inquiries and gave me a different perspective on various scholarly and unscholarly exchanges. Shaye Cohen, Hershel Shanks, Thomas Talley, Annewies van den Hoek, Glenn Bowman, and Charles E. Murgia likewise shed light on matters that were inaccessible to me. And it has been my pleasure to correspond with William M. Calder III and John Dart, from whom I learned some interesting facts about Morton Smith. Although reconstructing the past from scraps of evidence is the standard method of the historian, it is no substitute for asking people direct questions. My interest in the longer Gospel of Mark began about a year after Dr. Smith’s death. But I still wish to acknowledge the enormous contribution that his commentary on the Letter to Theodore made to my research. ...