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David, here is one reason I am wary of some assumptions made here: "... SG, you and I have different political POVs re state of Israel...." by DCHindley Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:12 am in the thread "Should we rename...." I appreciate many of your posts as helpful, but, as far as I can ...

DCHindley wrote, above, Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:49 pm, in part: "I have suggested in the past that what seems to have set off the likes of Michael Goulder & Mark Goodacre to oppose the very concept or need for Q, was that it implied that Church tradition was <shudder> wrong. Even though these tw...

You, dabber, know what they all didn't know?
Rookie assertion.

"What about him not giving up the priesthood?" Fair question. I don't claim to know everything. Possibly being rejected from job applications played a role. Or something I (nor you, gasp) have no knowledge of. Though I don't think he had actually de facto served as an Episcopal priest for ...

Whether of x, y, or z personal sexuality, at whatever time(s),
as those who knew him best apparently knew,
Smith changed,
for whatever reason--maybe not sexual; maybe a death; maybe something else--
from very Christian to very anti-Christian,
and that is research-relevant.
nu?

SaosSidirountios, you declared that much of the widely-accepted text of Clement is, in fact, not by Clement.
Without an example, your claim can not be assessed.

Also, though Smith apparently had the opportunity, he apparently did not try to find any similar text in Jerusalem. It seems he was not telling all to the Greek Orthodox in either location, nor in Nea Zion, to a somewhat larger Greek Orthodox readership. The first person he revealed that he showed i...

QQ visited Jerusalem, not Mar Saba, and in 1983, not 1980 or earlier. Also, iirc, Smith did not mention showing those pages to any monk at Mar Saba. Who there mentioned reading it, even, much less giving an opinion on it, before 1980? Also, Smith did not fully reveal the content in his Mar Saba bibl...

SA wrote above, Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:41 am, in part:

"1. the people in the monastery at the time Morton Smith discovered the letter down until 1980s thought the document was authentic."

What is the basis for this claim?

a) The black and white photos that Morton Smith published were cropped. The black and white photos that Ariel Sabar published in The Atlantic, April issue, are not cropped.

b) SS., do you think Clement wrote the Letter to Theodore, and why?