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Yes, I mis-typed Rabin instead of Roth, though neither seems on-point regarding the OP.
O'Donnell's dissertation does deal with dating proposals, for the Teacher, but not Jesus.
Toldot Yesu, I think, is not the only source of the mistake, the misdating.

Just a few more notes after a quick reading. Maybe I'm mistaken about some of this. I, of course, think Smith brought the pre-inscribed (and pre-photographed?) Voss book with him, took his time to locate a similar-looking volume to take with him at night, replaced that with Voss the next day, ditche...

JarekS, given that you have spent many years in the "content business," might it be possible that you are retrojecting that model, imposing it on some ancient history? Does the beginnings of Christian literature seem to you to have been organized ab initio top-down by a single content-prov...

Who was this "publisher"?
And tell us about the ancient world of publishing into which you imagine him.

So you don't wish to tell us about your putative "publisher"?

A. Powell Davies was a Unitarian minister.
Not sure why you mention Kevin O'Donnell (page number?--I have it) and C. Rabin in this regard.
If Mead wasn't serious he might have chosen a different book title.
C14 was not available when some of the mistaken suggestions were made.

"The publisher" ????

Provisionally, about dating, though not a simple subject--nor is naming unnamed ancient authors!--I note that it is rather widely agreed that Celsus used a previously-written Jewish source about Jesus, and it may turn out that some baraitot (early traditions) are relevant.

Prof. A. D. Nock (and his office) was at Harvard rather than Columbia.
Some other bits don't ring true to me, but I don't know if you want such feedback.

Rev. 1:7 does not mention a "figure falling dead from the sky."