Neaniskos
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Neaniskos is the Classic Greek word for "young man." It appears a total of eleven times in five of the books of the Greek New Testament
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It also appears in the controversial document known as the Secret Gospel of Mark
. Some scholars proposed that the occurrences of this word in Mk 14:51, Mk 16:5 and Secret Mark are somehow related. One suggestion is that the account of Secret Mark was created by combining the passages of Matthew, Mark and Luke in which the word Neaniskos appears.
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New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
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It also appears in the controversial document known as the Secret Gospel of Mark
Secret Gospel of Mark
The Secret Gospel of Mark is a putative non-canonical Christian gospel known exclusively from the Mar Saba letter, which describes Secret Mark as an expanded version of the canonical Gospel of Mark with some episodes elucidated, written for an initiated elite.In 1973 Morton Smith , professor of...
. Some scholars proposed that the occurrences of this word in Mk 14:51, Mk 16:5 and Secret Mark are somehow related. One suggestion is that the account of Secret Mark was created by combining the passages of Matthew, Mark and Luke in which the word Neaniskos appears.
See also:
- Omissions in the Gospel of John