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Secret A. wrote: “Trump is a profoundly dishonest man.” I agree with that. Now, if we can get back to the “Letter to Theodore,” if I understand correctly (correct me if I am mistaken), you (S.A.) are claiming that the letter was penned in a time before a particular abbreviation in it was in use, but...

Andrew Criddle wrote: “If so and lf this usage has influenced the manuscript, this seems to make it unlikely that the manuscript of the Letter to Theodore was written in the 18th century and would support a later date. Seems to me a reasonable observation. Maybe true: Morton Smith presented a hypoth...

Strawman department: “I am telling you straight out - I don't see any explanation to To Theodore's kou, ku, kou, kou that involves Morton Smith. No chance of explaining that even with a bald, gay, Sabbatean, para-suicidal assistant professor of religion trying to create a zombie race of homosexual w...

Giuseppe, that does not make sense to me. Mark was read elsewhere than Rome, for one thing, among many others.
If I said Vladimir Putin visited Jamaica and got religion, would he be Rasputin? Would you also somehow find that “proof” of your presupposition?

What about Cyrus?

I don’t have a copy at hand but Kim Haines-Eitzen discussed nomina sacra in her dissertation, revised as a book, “Guardians of Letters, 2000.”

To be published in 2021 by Oxford UP: Papias of Hierapolis Exposition of Dominical Oracles The Fragments, Testimonia, and Reception of a Second-Century Commentator Edited by Stephen C. Carlson Oxford Early Christian Texts Description This work is the most complete edition of the remains of the lost ...

S. A.: “As academics we do a lot of reading and very little doing.” Well, Confucius, Woodrow Wilson, Einstein, Marie Curie, Noam Chomsky, Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Isaac Newton, Edmond Burke, Leibniz, Goethe, Marx, Freud, E. Fermi, Jonas Salk, Luther, Brandeis, J. Von Neumann, L. Paul...

That Smith published in 1958 a 41-page article on Philosophumena, a text that mentions a variant version or interpretation of gMark—maybe coincidence.

M. Smith, "The Descriptions of the Essenes in Josephus and the. Philosophumena," HUCA 29 (1958) pp. 273-313. Somewhere, if I recall correctly, Shaye Cohen wrote that Smith later changed his mind about this article’s proposal (about the relation of the two texts).