Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

"MS got early liturgy wrong." Wrong for what fit Clement in Egypt. This, supported from, iirc, Robin Jenson (a Columbia grad, I think), and Peter Jeffrey, an early liturgy specialist, and a colleague prof of Smith's at Columbia. I entirely agree that liturgical explanations of Secret Mark...

Smith told Scholem, in Israel, about "Secret Mark" before he returned to New York. Smith later commented on two of my draft essays. One he called a hodgepodge, and he was right. The other he was more complimentary about. Both, revised, were later published, peer-reviewed. According to Sec...

IMHO not enough weight is being given to some of the specific claims made by Tselikas. See particularly palaeographic-observations-2 where Tselikas lists the unusual pattern of pen movements used in writing the letter. Paananen and Viklund addressed this here: What then of Tselikas’s list of ninete...

https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-built-the-pyramids Excavations in the 1990s into what researchers sometimes call “pyramid city” were crucial in establishing a modern understanding of not just how the pyramids were built but also by whom. Specifically, it was the discovery of large quantities of...

Has there been the kind of textual criticism, analysis, history etc--of the sort done for NT books--been done for Euclid's elements? I've read various things, including, for example, that the current recension is from Hypatia of Alexandria, which I don't know how much or how little to give credence...

IMHO not enough weight is being given to some of the specific claims made by Tselikas. See particularly palaeographic-observations-2 where Tselikas lists the unusual pattern of pen movements used in writing the letter. IMVHO there is a general tendency in that the writer is not using cursive to writ...

There is, so far, no evidence that Smith mentioned "Secret Mark" to any monk in 1958 or 1959. Morton Smith says on p.18 of Secret Gospel that the idea of him suppressing this controversial discovery was ruled out because he had already spoken to Scholem. This may imply that he had only sp...

According to Smith and Landau. Morton Smith said that he realized at Mar Saba that he had discovered a previously unknown letter of Clement against the Carpocratians. He took careful photographs which he only properly studied after leaving Palestine and arriving at Athens. This account makes it unl...

I made an earlier post in a similar thread here To paraphrase: Tselikas did not strictly speaking establish that the handwriting is later than the 18th century, What Tselikas did claim to establish is that although the handwriting is in one sense an 18th century Greek cursive, the scribe is not writ...

It's one thing for Marcion to say 'this was the original, that was an interpolation' when he does not know. It's another thing if Marcion originated the gospel text and wanted it to be accepted. In that case, transparency is unexpected. IMHO Marcion explicitly presented his Gospel text as a critica...