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1.28.2010

Early copy of the Gospel of Mark is a forgery

By Emily Sharpe
Not what it appears to be: the Archaic Mark
Not what it appears to be: the Archaic Mark

LONDON. A clever bit of detective work by US scholars and scientists has proven that one of the jewels of the University of Chicago’s manuscript collection is, in fact, a skilled late 19th- or early 20th-century forgery.

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