The 'Secret' Gospel of Mark

The Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 11 February 1974 and published by the Athlone Press as a 20-page pamphlet. Bruce examines the letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria that Morton Smith announced in 1960 and published in 1973, which quotes an expanded 'secret' text of Mark 10. In five sections he places it among other secret writings, sets out the Clementine letter and the expanded text, discusses Clement's knowledge of the gospel text and Mark's links with Alexandria, and judges the expanded passage an artificial composition derived largely from the raising of Lazarus in John, finding Smith's arguments unconvincing while acknowledging the care of his case. He reprinted it in The Canon of Scripture (1988).