NT Pod 40: "Teeth will be provided": the joke, the hoax, the story
Mark Goodacre
9.49
31 August 2023
30 October 2025
NT Pod 40 discusses an amusing agraphon that turned out to be a hoax, and the joke that preceded it.
Key texts: Matt. 24.51
References:
Ehrman, Bart D., Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 69-70
Carlson, Stephen C., The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark (Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2005): 17-19
Metzger, Bruce, "Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha," JBL 91 (1972): 3-24
Coleman-Norton, Paul, "An Amusing Agraphon," CBQ 12 (1950): 439-49.
"Anecdotes", Annie Besant (ed.), Our Corner V (1885): 120.
"Under the Spreading Chesnut Tree," Everybody's Magazine XXIV (January-June 1911): 142.
Thanks to Ram2000 (http://www.ram2000.net/) , Me and You (http://www.ram2000.net/media//DIR_9312/DIR_11312/153-Me$20And$20You-POP-2003R.mp3) , for the opening theme, released under a Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) agreement.
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