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The matter is much more complicated than that and Iucundus cannot be accused of forgery. I studied the textual tradition of the ten-book family (Z) of Pliny manuscripts almost ten years ago. The outcomes of my research are in this publication. https://www.academia.edu/14382365/La_tradizione_testuale...

First of all I want to apologize with Andrew for using this topic to reply to questions raised in another one, but this seems to me a more appropriate place to explore the matter. I personally do not think that Pliny the Younger or Tacitus are interpolations, and I've elsewhere shared several reserv...

So the question is - in a situation where the Patristic works themselves are all corrupt, if an authentic Origen or an authentic Clement survived via another channel wouldn't it necessarily be 'hyper' that Church Father? In this scenario - Letter of Clement as the only 100% clementine fragment - LC...

I try to explain in which sense the fragment can be considered as ‘hyper’ clementine. Neil Godfrey on Vridar has explained the basic concepts behind this stylometric method: https://vridar.org/2016/02/17/fresh-doubts-on-authenticity-of-plinys-letter-about-the-christians/ The measure of the similarit...

Abstract Since the publication of Clement’s letter to Theodore, discovered by Morton Smith at Mar Saba, there has been a great deal of controversy surrounding its authenticity. The main aim of the present paper is to weigh the linguistic evidence for and against Clementine authorship of the letter,...

I think Smith's reconstruction in the conclusion is not even worthy to be commented. Nonetheless I believe his analysis includes some good points when he deals with BeDuhn's thesis (pp.152-156) which surely deserves in-depth examination. I am especially referring to the Q material missing from Marci...

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Yes the first references cited are just for laying out the early propositions. The author knows and briefly analyzes the most recent proposal of Vinzent, Klinghardt and BeDuhn. I find especially interesting the problems he highlights involved in BeDuhn's theory which I was used to consider the most ...

A recent article on the subject by Daniel A. Smith is available here: https://books.google.it/books?id=zheBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=Gospels+and+Gospel+Traditions+in+the+Second+Century:+Experiments+in+Reception&source=bl&ots=07j6zi0np0&sig=QLMHuevvlnZmGEfku4Ty2MGCbAg&...

What I find really surprising is that in Severus, a supposedly follower of Apelles we can find exactly the same system that Deconick have convincingly detected in John about the identity of the devil and his father. Epiphanius (Pan. XLV.1.3) wrote: He [Severus] wants to ascribe the creation of our w...