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But then you've officially crossed the line and become a conspiracy theory.

Tselikas hints at that. It would explain (sort of) the "naked man with naked man" error and the misreading of the abbreviations of kuriou. Only so far you can go with that. Why didn't he ask the scribe to tell him what was there.

There you go. But only a few of them had writing in the back. And this was extensive writing. I had a copy of El Cid when I was a kid with extensive handwritten notes from someone. I remembered that book.

I accused all Western scholars in this debate of this both forgery and authenticity promoters just as I mentioned people who "prefer" Morton Smith's amateur renderings over the expertise of Tselikas are on both sides of the debate. I think all participants in this debate by ignoring Tselik...

Here's some evidence. Seraphim was in the monastery when Morton Smith found the manuscript. Morton Smith called him his "old friend" and took a close up photo of him (showing intimacy) and included in his book. He also took a photo of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and kept him appraised of hi...

The idea that we should listen only to WASP scholars who speculate that Morton Smith planted the document and ignore the guy who ran the Mar Saba monastery when Morton Smith discovered the document when he assumed the document was always a part of the monastic library is the height of racism. If thi...

My opinion. Western scholarship never even considered these people as people. They look at them like stupid peasants who lack the sophistication to contribute to meaningful conversation. That's why Tselikas was ignored for the last fifteen years. Just WASPs are invited to the table. Seriously. When ...

Yeah sure. I thank him though. If it wasn't for the promise of his negative reaction I wouldn't have done half this research.

The context is heretics at Mar Saba. Kallistos is saying. The letter is ancient. The handwriting is from the 18th century. It was copied from an earlier period. But it was not Clement of Alexandria. This comes from the conversation between Quesnell and Kallistos Dourvas as witnessed by two different...

This account makes it unlikely that he informed the monks at Mar Saba of his discovery of an alternative version of Mark. Why is there always this parsing of words? You both do this. You're telling me that YOU KNOW that while in isolation is some fucking horrible monastery Morton Smith didn't turn ...