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He clearly told Seraphim what he discovered the day he discovered it. "Old friend." You would share your discovery with an old friend. He mentions him again on page 30 but I can't read what he says. Is it worth buying again for $16? No one has this book?

In a snipit view from Google Books I see Seraphim was peripherally involved with Smith while he ordered books: "Never revisit a place that fascinated you when you were young - you discover not only its changes, but your own. Much at Jerusalem, of course, was the same. Father Kyriakos was genial...

I would assume so. Does anyone have a copy of Smith's the Secret Gospel? He must mention Seraphim there.

They will imagine whatever makes Smith guilty. BTW Biblical Archaeological Review report on Secret Mark is DOA. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/agamemnon-tselikas-handwriting-analysis-report/ From Smith and Landau's book: And so he began his survey of t...

I've asked a number of people what's the connection between Seraphim and Smith. Where is the documentation? This is the letter where Smith and Landau have determined that the monastery regarded the text as authentic: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3V88JvUlHYOqPK0EAfpM3-h...

Not directly. They brought the books out to him.

But not just that it was regarded as authentic. Seraphim was there when Smith discovered the text. How did Smith and Landau know that Smith knew Seraphim? He must have been the one getting the books. I bet.

Smith and Landau add something to the story: Flusser remembers that they did encounter one bump in the road. When the team of scholars attempted to leave with the book, “Abbot Seraphim,” an old friend of Smith who presided over Mar Saba, “raised hell,” demanding that “they would have to request it, ...

I was wrong about Seraphim's time at Mar Saba. On April 21, 1932, he was received as a novice-monk. After his first all-night vigil, he returned to his cell to rest; however his Elder Panteleimon (Tsampiras) followed him and suggested that he ought to be praying not sleeping. In the following years,...

The question is whether they would have remembered a coverless Latin book with 18th century Greek handwriting in the blank back pages. Or better yet could Seraphim have accepted that such a distinctive text which was never there before suddenly appeared there almost 20 years after he arrived at Mar ...