Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16839-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stroumsa, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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).