| Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, Correspondence 1945-1982 Contributor(s): Stroumsa, Guy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004168397 ISBN-13: 9789004168398 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Religion | Judaism - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 296 |
| LCCN: 2008009748 |
| Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture |
| Physical Information: 204 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |