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Really? A monk living in the 20th century trying to preserve a manuscript from a Church Father would use a modern script to do so? How do we know that. Maybe it's deliberately archaic and thus anachronistic. Like a diploma. https://www.printmag.com/designer-interviews/why-do-all-diplomas-use-blackle...

You know when my maids come in to clean the house and I can't find something my immediate reaction is "those fucking maids threw out my ______." I am wrong 99% of the time. But that's what you're doing and that's what I think Tselikas was doing.

Why does it have to be Morton Smith? Why do you always attempt to create a false binary choice?

Why can't it be Seraphim?

But again if Seraphim's handwriting matches the handwriting of the letter does that prove that it is a fake? And let's suppose, if we are going into more speculation, that Tselikas knows that Seraphim's handwriting looks like the letter. Is he likely going to impugn the reputation of someone that is...

But again. The Greek Orthodox Church on some level accepted the text and the book had always been in the monastery (or at least been there before Morton Smith's discovery) when they created that certificate of authenticity. They could be wrong. They could have mistakenly believed the book was there ...

SA, for clarity, Smith's Greek text is a "transcription" and an error there would be transcribed incorrectly.

Which is a somewhat more relevant point than just saying mistranslated.

Yes.

Let's be honest Stephen. You have exhibited a consistent binary thought pattern which I don't think the evidence supports. For you it's Morton Smith or you don't want to hear it. That's a bad sign in a debate. There are a lot of possibilities here once you know that the monastery and the Patriarchat...

What if it turned out that Seraphim's handwriting resembled the Mar Saba author. Would that be enough to prove that Morton Smith was behind the forgery?

Smith mentioned an earlier fire for his scenario. And? Who fucking cares what Smith postulated. Even by saying such a thing like this you are showing you can't get out of what Smith wrote or imagined versus what could have happened. I don't think Smith is in control of reality. He mistranslated the...