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Just imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. Suppose Smith transcribed it as an iota, commented on that, and the argument for the next 60 years hinged on that. Then imagine someone came along with this image to try to stir a controversy about the reading. https://earlywritings.com/forum/download...

There aren't many experts on this planet who study post-Byzantine manuscripts and early modern calligraphic (cursive Greek) writing. I've already seen the initial opinion of a few of them. They said it was an iota. They have impeccable credentials and extensive publication records on the topic of po...

I'm willing to say that the issue of ligatures can, once again, be dropped. There is a possible concern with discussing it much further. While there's no logical reason to think that defusing a weak argument acts as a support for the opposite conclusion, that's not quite how we're wired to think. De...

Under the name of Clement of Rome have circulated multiple letters : (1) The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians , generally regarded as authentic (2) The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians , commonly circulated with the previous (3) A First Epistle on Virginity , now only extant i...

Morton Smith makes a number of observations regarding the circumstances of the 18th century copyist: Clement of Alexandria, p. 2 That the writer was a scholar is also shown by his spelling. Although confusion of the various vowels sounded as £ was common in his time, he has only once fallen into it ...

Given the current state of the discussion in this thread regarding the shape of the letter based on the images shared, where the images of the letter itself have been considered by several participants to be insufficient to resolve the question definitely, a reasonable next stage of discussion is to...

It's possible that Ephraem attributes 'Bethsaida' here to the Diatessaron, which is a primary focus of his commentary, and that the remarks on Marcion here regard other aspects. Quite so; but Couchcloud does read Ephriam as explicitly saying that in the copy of the Ev which he had, it was Bethsaida...

Klinghardt, Matthias. The Oldest Gospel: A Missing Link in New Testament Scholarship, Kindle Edition I noticed something when reading a footnote of Couchcloud--he says that in Ephram's copy of the Evangelion has "Bethsaida" here instead of Nazara or Nazareth. Curiouser and curiouser. Here...

How so? Well, it was a long time ago, so I don't remember specifically.....I just remembered, at the end of the debate, that somebody who spends their entire professional life studying the gospels, trained at and working at the best universities in the world should have left no doubt in my mind whe...

also quoted here: https://preachersinstitute.com/2017/08/ ... theotokos/