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by StephenGoranson
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:00 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 99
Views: 1670

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

I agree with Andrew (Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:58 am). And I would add that, though most of Smith's correspondence was destroyed, I suggest it is a safe bet that when Columbia Professor Smith asked others for paleographic date estimates he told them that he "found" the writing at Mar Saba, helpin...
by StephenGoranson
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:41 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Easter, Eostre
Replies: 11
Views: 557

Re: Easter, Eostre

In other words, what is now called in English "Easter," aka Resurrection Sunday, aka Pasch, had been long observed before the time of Bede. (Perhaps a better example of a mix of pagan, in the neutral connotation of rural, and non-pagan, as used in some religion-language, might be the harve...
by StephenGoranson
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:11 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Melchizedek 11Q13
Replies: 8
Views: 247

Re: Melchizedek 11Q13

"When did Christianity begin?"--ewhandler's question. I used (above) the conventional definition of "Christianity," a religion started in the first century ad/ce. Christians obviously value, e.g., the Book of Genesis and also Job and others. But, generally, I think, these books, ...
by StephenGoranson
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:38 am
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?
Replies: 65
Views: 1511

Re: γυμνὸς or γυμνοὶ in Clement's Letter to Theodore?

This may have been penned by Morton Smith, who was an artist, who had time to practice, and who had photos and first-hand experience of mss from the 18th century. Or possibly, though I consider it much less likely--in part because who would he find and additionally who would he trust?--an accomplice...
by StephenGoranson
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 99
Views: 1670

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

Because you wrote "... Martijn unintentionally discourages candid discussion of his work by his toxicity."
that's why I thought it relevant.
by StephenGoranson
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Melchizedek 11Q13
Replies: 8
Views: 247

Re: Melchizedek 11Q13

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by StephenGoranson
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 99
Views: 1670

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

That particular type toxic attempted defense of M. Smith may not be what M. Smith wished for, nor would have appreciated. As to Martijn, he asserted his that view was supported by Coptic dictionaries, yet those same dictionaries were written by Coptic scholars who would not ever accept this dating o...
by StephenGoranson
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 99
Views: 1670

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

Smith could have known a Catholic and a Jewish woman, and or also one who was both, or also a Zoroastrian. So what.
A fake ms is still a fake ms.