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A NEW Paleo-Arabic Inscription by a COMPANION of Muhammad? | Ahmad Al-Jallad and Hythem Sidky In this video I [Gabriel Said Reynolds] chat with Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Dr. Hythem Sidky about a recently discovered Paleo-Arabic Inscription found in Taif, which may be from a companion of Muhammad. They...

fwiw, Smith does not say he was looking for this particular "Letter" and claimed he was surprised to find it.
He claimed to go to catalog books, not manuscripts.

I am not persuaded that nobody has been surprised by this book. Rather, the fact that the current library completely restricts, bans, access to it speaks volumes in the other direction. I have tried to point out that history of writing is more in a paleographer's domain than in that of a modern era ...

Dating Jesus to the time of Jannaeus is a mistake,
as I have discussed elsewhere.

Litwa has a new (2024) article. (I haven't read it yet.) M. David Litwa, ‘Thomas in Alexandria: Arguments for Locating the Gospel and Book of Thomas in Alexandria,’ Journal of Biblical Literature 143.1 (2024) 163-183. Abstract: “In this article, I argue that the Gospel of Thomas and the Book of Thom...

If I may, I don't agree that "The natural conclusion here is that the text is the Greek handwriting of someone who lived before the 20th century." Tselikas' conclusion that the handwriting is "an imitation of an older script" seems to me sound. When such an imitation occurred cou...

And, SA, as for your shotgun proposal, above Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:57 am, that WASPs
ganged up on Smith, wasn't Smith, um, a WASP?

Some old carbon ink is readable.
Ever heard of Dead Sea Scrolls?

No.
You apparently can't even bring yourself, yet, to consider, e.g., the new evidence in April Atlantic.
And you, still of and on wavering whether Clement wrote it.

There is, so far, no evidence that Smith mentioned "Secret Mark" to any monk in 1958 or 1959.