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"Nobody else ever mentioned." All the conversations at this forum are never considered part of the memorialized "timeline" of discussions of the manuscript in a bibliography. Smith isn't talking about people in the monastery. He's talking about recorded conversations in scholarly...

This is the strangest debate ever on the subject of to Theodore. I have a meeting with my son's teacher. Why do I have to know my son's grades to tell someone "I've got an appointment with my son's teacher." I don't understand your obsession with Morton Smith knowing all the contents of th...

spin is my Ben C Smith. They all weep for Ben like he's the dying Adonis.

If Litwa had included the quoted statement in a university publication, the reviewer would have formally ridiculed it, asking a rhetorical question - how does the author know what he is writing?

We got another one.

StephenGoranson = the Elder Cato.

I am suggesting to take Morton Smith at his word that he knew there were often handwritten notes in the blank pages of notes. He did find other manuscripts as well as the Letter to Theodore.

But the manuscripts of the Patriarchate had all been photographed in 1949.

Do you accept that Morton Smith was looking for texts of Isidore of Pelusium in 1952 or was this also part of a wider plot?

This is why I don't like Richard Carrier: Litwa literally doesn’t know anything he is talking about. "Literally." How can an expert "literally" not know anything about what he is talking about. The word "literally" literally makes the sentence incomprehensible. Typical ...

I actually tried to get David Trobisch when he was at the Hobby Lobby Bible Museum (not sure if he is still there) to buy the manuscript. He was interested but nothing came of it.