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One alleged internal sign of forgery is that there are no errors, corrections, or Scribal notes in the "Letter of Clement." One of the scholars who looked at it noticed this and then realized that he was looking at an "original." I think that he meant that if the text was copied ...

Just like Mormonism. 👍 It's like Mormonism, in that you are dealing with a series of unlikelihoods that show that it's probably a fraud. Even if you accept that J.Smith could have a rare, supernatural ability to translate the Book of Mormon using a Seer Stone, there are still a ton of other unlikel...

I'm just assuming that my related list of parallels between GMark and Josephus is still the best one ever created: "Mark's" Fourth Source(After Imagination,Paul &Tanakh) = Joe but I'll look through this Thread to see if I think anything is worthy of being added to the list. Joe, Thank...

With Eisegesis, a person is making arguments to confirm their bias. In my case, my presupposition was that Secret Mark was real because the EW website listed it. It was only after reading so much about it and the pro and con arguments that it came to feel like a giant trash heap. Take for instance t...

I gave at least 23 red flags that Secret Mark is a forgery in my first post in my thread here: http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4843 At first, I assumed it was real because it was on the EW list of early writings. Then I was unsure when I read Wikipedia. Then when I got into th...

Before his "discovery" Smith hypothesized something quite peculiar: That the author of GMark may have "deliberately censored" material from a GJohn source. Watson writes: "Precisely these points are attested in Clement's letter to Theodore. The Secret Gospel's story of the ...

You know nothing or very, very little about Morton Smith and effectively created a parody based on a few scraps of information One thing that I don't know about him is whether he went solo in his "Secret Mark" forgery or if others helped him. And if he was connected to others, then were t...

Morton Smith bio https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/smith-morton Smith was perhaps at the height of his perceived credibility during the time of his interview on the 1984 documentary TV series titled Jesus: The Evidence (Smith's bit is introduced wi...

My problem with this point is that the two thieves detail are part and parcel of the same anti-marcionite polemic behind the titulus crucis , identifying univocally the principal victim as the Jewish Messiah. When at contrary for Marcion the true Jesus was the "Jesus Son of Father" (parod...

maryhelena posted a table here comparing Jesus to kingly depictions in Josephus: Her list is longer though. http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=941 OK here is the chart/table. Thanks for writing in with a thoughtful reply. I am thinking of a longer list that I saw someplace with ...