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I have an idea what's in my library or what was in my library. Seems a bit different. One acquires their own personal library, so every possession has a personal connection. It would take a strange mind to make the claim that they knew every book that was there or not, without making a catalog first.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:29 pm But then there's no evidence that the book wasn't there.

The list isn't good evidence of that because there were approximately 5x as many books there, as you are saying.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:25 pm If you accept that the list of books is limit of books in the library of Mar Saba

But isn't that obviously bullshit?

Or is there some reason to accept that idea?

What's this "only 100" books thing? Why are you talking about that? Is it something SG claimed?

If you were a monk went to your monastery and claimed to find a copy of the Marquis de Sade's 120 days of Sodom and you had only 100 books in your library and you lived in the middle of the desert with nothing to do, I don't think you'd be fighting over keeping this copy of 120 days of Sodom. 1. th...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:59 pm Knowledge has an in itself value. There's no justification needed for saying "hey I discovered something."

Alright.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:48 pm The title of the thread is " Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives"

To what end? Maybe we can make a calendar with all these Greek monks. Call it the Monk of the Month?

That's not the point. Surely Seraphim and Kallistos preserve the original attitude of the Mar Saba monastery and before you people spread around these "gay gospel" reports which poisoned the well with the Patriarchate. Yes it's the original attitude. Yes some of these monks were there bef...

As I have repeatedly written, the front cover, the front page, and the spine binding had all gone missing, erasing potential marks of previous, non Mar Saba ownership. I know. https://web.archive.org/web/20110616022558/http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Secret/discussion-hoax.html Stephen Carlson a...

Was there any evidence in the Isaac Voss edition about its prior ownership? Notes in it from other hands, besides the famous one?