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"Rediscovered Fragments Shed New Light on a Proto-Masoretic Torah Scroll" Paul Sanders, J. of Hebrew Scriptures v. 35 a.5, 23 pages [2023] During the past decade, two fragments of a single Torah scroll caught much attention, since they date from the 7th or 8th century CE.1 They are among t...

"the whole Greek Orthodox Patriarchate"?

Forgeries happen. I won't retype the evidence now, as you seem set on ignoring such.

Let's see what turns up.
No point speculating about how to evaluate what we have not yet seen.

No one mentioned a "monumental discovery" before 1958.
Your "Surely...within 24 hours....must have....Surely...." does not make those speculations so.

His monk minder saw him bring books from his overnight allotment.

No one claimed to see it before 1958.
Questions about authenticity started before QQ.

Smith does not mention showing it in 1958 to any monk.

I was trying to address one point at that time, namely, whether Smith was in the Mar Saba tower library. He was. Perhaps you were thinking of the Jerusalem library, which may be, for most people, closed stacks. On the handwriting, lots of people thought it looked like 18th-century writing, or late 1...

From my copy of the G. Smith and B. Landau book, page 22, (and quoted above by Secret Alias » Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:40 pm....!) "With a monk by his side—chaperones are often required when looking at manuscripts at Greek Orthodox libraries—each morning except Sunday Smith would ascend a series of s...