Peter Kirby wrote:
These are
questionable/uncertain candidates for inclusion (I am willing to be persuaded that one or more of these three should be included on the site):
- Questions of Bartholomew
- Gospel of Bartholomew
- Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew)
Not sure why they are uncertain, since the first two are dated from 100 AD up to Jerome's time (early/mid 4th c.), while the website list already has:
300-600 Gospel of Gamaliel
320-380 Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions
Both I think were written after G.Bartholomew or Q.Bartholomew
It can be helpful just as reference even if the latest date, Jerome's time, turns out to be correct. For example, the website list includes:
70-160 Secret Mark
But my best guess is that
Secret Mark was composed in the 20th c. AD. Why? Because the person who found it was already advancing the thesis about Jesus' homosexuality that the "snippets" from Secret Mark portray. I think that this is no coincidence.
In 1973, Morton Smith, a professor of ancient history at Columbia University, reported having found a previously unknown letter of Clement of Alexandria in the monastery of Mar Saba on the West Bank transcribed into the endpapers of a 17th-century printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch. The original manuscript was subsequently transferred to another monastery, and the manuscript is believed to be lost. Further research has relied upon photographs and copies, including those made by Smith himself.
...
Subsequent study, including handwriting analysis of higher quality color photographs of the document, first published in 2000, revealed more possible evidence of forgery, and led scholars such as Craig A. Evans and Emanuel Tov to conclude the work is a hoax, with Smith being the most likely perpetrator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark
So I think the Secret Mark entry should read
(70 - 1973 AD).
But even though I think it's a modern fraud, then so long as the jury is out, I think it's worth being in your list.
I would say something similar about g.Bartholomew.