Helmut Koester? He said something to you?Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:16 am First it was Helmut the frog or whatever his name was.
I guess you mean Hermann (Detering).
Helmut Koester? He said something to you?Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:16 am First it was Helmut the frog or whatever his name was.
According to Morton Smith's book: "The front cover and the title page were lost (most of the books in the tower library had lived hard lives), and there was nothing on the spine, but..." (p. 13)
Why do you not care about looking into this and immediately just want to shut down the question?Peter Kirby wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:49 amCan anything more on this point be found?He remembers someone noting in some [monastic] publication that some did report seeing this in the 16th ? 17th ? century
What is "no such thing"?StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:32 am We agree (I guess) that he could well have meant, in effect, cited from an older text in a later publication.
Why I said that was "probably" mistaken is because he, and many others, for many years, have looked and found no such thing.