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JarekS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:26 pm David Litwa should know that he is presenting personal naive speculation

And how do you believe that your own presentation efforts should be summed up?

It remains fact that putative "Secret Mark" surprised. And that the best paleographer should not be dismissed. Aside, if I am allowed the following, for which I could provide details. Many have heard the phrase, three kinds of lies, "lies, damned lies, and statistics." That foll...

OK, though elsewhere you have said you prefer to avoid hypotheticals. That there is a yet-unknown such reference is a hypothetical. To be fair. Perhaps you misunderstand me. I have not offered this 'hypothetical' as something directly relevant to the debate, as-is. I have indicated it as a possible...

JarekS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:26 pm David Litwa should know that he is presenting personal naive speculation

JarekS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:26 pm today's biblical studies blur the lines between speculation and research

Do we need a section of "Biblical Criticism & History" for anti-'biblical studies' studies?

He does not think it is from S. Clement. He remembers someone noting in some [monastic] publication that ... A receipt from the transfer, signed by Dourvas among others, has recently surfaced. The paleographer Agamemnon Tselikas discovered it in the archives of the Patriarchal Library in Jerusalem....

Ironically, the book by Stephen C. Carlson, often vilified in this forum, though it remains largely pertinent, actually introduced views of "Julie C. Edison, a professional forensic document examiner." Admittedly with less than ideal photographs. Scott G. Brown and Allan J. Pantuck bring ...

StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:47 am In my opinion.

Thank you for sharing your opinions here in this thread.

Conversation goes completely stale because you have nothing valid to say.

You keep saying invalid things, which are essentially the same things already said.

Then it's a "gotcha" if someone doesn't keep saying no.

Fun times in Ward 6, I guess.

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:11 pm What is interesting is the silence by Peter Kirby about the Klinghardt's words above: is this silence evidence that he agrees with K and me on this point?

So, again, no.

Klinghardt gives me reason on this point: The Markan report of Jesus’ baptism not only places the beginning of the Gospel into a framework of salvation history, it also provides the opportunity to have God himself proclaim the true identity of Jesus as ‘my beloved son’ (Mark 1,11). Compared to Jesu...