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I suggest that it is a false dichotomy to claim that literature is either "authentic" or "popular and successful." There are other collections of letters--and history books--that are both. If I understand your writing correctly, you posit--in order to "help biblical scholars...

Maybe so, Adam. As the formula goes: he writes English better than I write Greek. At least on the surface, there may be some tensions between portions of his report. But this sentence (no. 19 in Textological observations) is clear: "Once we prove that the handwriting of the letter is alien to t...

That's a lot of unsupported "assume"s.

If I may suggest, the one-source (imposed? modern?) product drop model in early Christianity does not persuasively take into account the long negotiations about the various-located accretions of text toward a canon, more or less, but not entirely, shared by Christians.

I suggest that naked, singular, was more likely intended than nakeds, plural, given the text context.

To be clear, the letter written in Hebrew by Smith is now in the Hebrew University collections.
It was translated into English for publication in the Smith-Scholem Correspondence volume by Yonatan Moss, who has noted elsewhere that Smith's modern Hebrew was not fluent.

Between Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), if that is who is intended, would not chronologically (if chronology is intended) fit Israel Regardie (1907-1985). Maybe "Eliphas Levi" (1810-1875)? If anyone wishes to research it, the letter is at Hebrew University. And ther...

IMO, you, JarekS, have not shown that "The corpus was created and edited in one place."

In the latest Revue de Qumran, t. 35, f. 2 no. 122, pages 161-173 (I do consider RevQ a good source, even if no academic source is infallible. Full disclosure: I have published in RevQ.) Andrew Perrot and Emile Puech, "Cryptic C 4Q363a as a Palaeo-Hebrew Manuscript: 4Qpalaeo-Hebrew 363a" A...

Thanks for your comment, Andrew. Of course leitourgia *is* relevant if Morton Smith composed it, with his misunderstanding of that. I now have a copy of The Secret Gospel: The Discovery etc. 1973 at hand. By the way, MS mentioned leitourgia on page 7. But on another matter Andrew, if I may, having r...