Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945 -1982 (Jerusalem Studies in Religion & Culture) (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004168397 ISBN 13: 9789004168398

Publisher: Brill, 2008

Synopsis

The American historian of ancient religions, Morton Smith (1915-1991), studied with the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), when he was 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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About the Author:

Guy G. Stroumsa, PhD (Harvard, 1978), is the Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Christianity. He has published extensively on the history of religions in late antiquity. Among his recent works: La fin du sacrifice: les mutations religieuses de l'antiquite tardive (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005) and Le rire du Christ (Paris: Bayard, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9004168397
• ISBN 13: 9789004168398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Stroumsa Guy