Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:12 am
I'll try to summarize the available sources of the official photographs. As far as I know, there are only two people who took photographs of the Letter to Theodore manuscript. Morton Smith took black-and-white photographs in 1958 and librarian Kallistos Dourvas took colored photographs in 1977.
Black-and-white photographs
The first time these photos were published by Morton Smith was in 1973 in Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark, page 449, 451, 453.
Then, in 1974, the first page was again published by Morton Smith in The Secret Gospel, page 38. It can be seen here: https://archive.org/details/secretgospe ... 8/mode/2up
Recently (2023), these photos were republished by Brent C. Landau and Geoffrey S. Smith in The Secret Gospel of Mark, page 23, 24. The book is also available as an e-book. The source of their photographs is stated as "Morton Smith Papers, box 1/7, and Saul Liebermann Papers, box 1/11. Image courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary."
They also wrote an online article https://notevenpast.org/did-mark-the-ev ... l-of-mark/. This article contains a photograph of the first page in good quality. Even better quality has the link to this article from the Wikipedia article Secret Gospel of Mark: https://notevenpast.org/wp-content/uplo ... 8x1489.jpg
Color photographs
The first time these color photographs were published was in the article Secret Mark by Charles W. Hedrick with Nikolaos Olympiou in The Fourth R, Volume 13,5 (Sept/Oct 2000). The article is available here: https://www.westarinstitute.org/editorials/secret-mark and the archived version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625082 ... retmk.html.
The archived version contains also the actual photos but in poor quality:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527164 ... etmk1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527164 ... etmk2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527163 ... etmk3.html
The better quality of the first page can be seen here: https://archaeonewsnet.com/the-secret-g ... fake-says/. It's an article about the doctoral dissertation of Timo Paananen, who probably obtained high-quality photographs from Charles Hedrick.
I don't know about high-quality color photographs of the second and the third page.
Black-and-white photographs
The first time these photos were published by Morton Smith was in 1973 in Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark, page 449, 451, 453.
Then, in 1974, the first page was again published by Morton Smith in The Secret Gospel, page 38. It can be seen here: https://archive.org/details/secretgospe ... 8/mode/2up
Recently (2023), these photos were republished by Brent C. Landau and Geoffrey S. Smith in The Secret Gospel of Mark, page 23, 24. The book is also available as an e-book. The source of their photographs is stated as "Morton Smith Papers, box 1/7, and Saul Liebermann Papers, box 1/11. Image courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary."
They also wrote an online article https://notevenpast.org/did-mark-the-ev ... l-of-mark/. This article contains a photograph of the first page in good quality. Even better quality has the link to this article from the Wikipedia article Secret Gospel of Mark: https://notevenpast.org/wp-content/uplo ... 8x1489.jpg
Color photographs
The first time these color photographs were published was in the article Secret Mark by Charles W. Hedrick with Nikolaos Olympiou in The Fourth R, Volume 13,5 (Sept/Oct 2000). The article is available here: https://www.westarinstitute.org/editorials/secret-mark and the archived version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625082 ... retmk.html.
The archived version contains also the actual photos but in poor quality:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527164 ... etmk1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527164 ... etmk2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20120527163 ... etmk3.html
The better quality of the first page can be seen here: https://archaeonewsnet.com/the-secret-g ... fake-says/. It's an article about the doctoral dissertation of Timo Paananen, who probably obtained high-quality photographs from Charles Hedrick.
I don't know about high-quality color photographs of the second and the third page.