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2 inch fragments can only be scraps of evidence. and scraps are not very important. It's not the difference Hoole points out; it's the additions that the Bryennios manuscript has, that just happen to be from the non-NT parts of Sinaiticus (Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd Of Hermas). Coming sho...

The critical study by David Robert Palmer has in there a listing for the "Apostolic Constitutions" but he does not say whose version. So my question remains: what's the origin of Whiston's Greek text in ~1711? Whiston was translating a Greek edition of the Apostolic Constitutions. Francis...

Above, in part: "....the Codex Simonides a.k.a. Sinaiticus which is a known forgery." The four libraries in four different countries with portions of it accept it as ancient, not a forgery: https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ Unless there is a lot of external pressure, libraries are very ...

Sometimes the consensus is right. The consensus was built on hiding the manuscript. Once it was achieved, it becomes "deeply entrenched" scholarship, with inertia, momentum and scholastic stagnation. Even in late 1861, the German Oriental Society was planning to really look at the pages, ...

Yep - fixing it.

Years ago, I wrote a paper affirming that there was a flight to Pella from Jerusalem in the 60s; that too has been disputed. If so, then Ariston of Pella likely heard from earlier Christians. (It's also disputed whether Ariston of Pella wrote Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus, though in presenting a n...

To summarize, if the POxy text is very close to Sinaiticus (correction, the Bryennius Didache), that really closes the issue of authentic its. Sometimes such claims are overstated or simply false. That happened with a James White claim about papyri and Sinaiticus. He repeatedly claimed in the debat...

To summarize, if the POxy text is very close to Sinaiticus, that really closes the issue of authentic its. Sometimes such claims are overstated or simply false. That happened with a James White claim about papyri and Sinaiticus. He claimed in the debate with Chris Pinto that Sinaiticus matched singu...

PS: What was the time delay/excuse/narrative by Bryennius justifying the later appreance/discovery/waiting-for-the-ink-to-dry of the Didache? It was a couple of years at least was it not? Are there any descriptions of the physical state of the manuscript? And of course, as always, has it been AMS C...

Primitive Christianity reviv'd : in four volumes - Volume 2 - 588 pages The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles https://archive.org/details/primitivechristi02whis/page/n5/mode/2up Primitive Christianity reviv'd : in four volumes - Volume 3 - 718 pages An Essay on the Apostolical Constitutions https:...