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Actually, I am much more interested in who was the Qumran Teacher of Righteousness (Judah), and whether Papias' Aristion is identical with Aristo of Pella, etc.
But a fraud, such as Dirk Obbink misdating then illegally selling stolen mss, must needs be addressed, too.

The falseness of the "Letter to Theodore," unless I'm mistaken, which is surely possible, is becoming increasingly recognized.
Neither you, Peter, nor I own it all.

As owner, you can make rules for civility and good faith but don't need to follow them yourself?
This forum does some good passing of information, sometimes.
This small corner of the world.

He got permission for a project of cataloging books. That was his announced reason--as is published and well known. What I said was what I was trying to say.

Smith had been previously searching manuscripts. At Mar Saba he went to catalog books not manuscripts, though not a librarian nor bibliographer?
And just happened to find a manuscript in a book near his last day? Coincidence?

It is an indication. An argument. Or maybe you, as an owner, puts Clement notes in your Ignatius folder.

In some degree---cumulatively. If you had a note about Clement, would you note it with Clement or with Ignatius.

Scholem, Nock, Lieberman, Gaster, and at least a couple of his students knew he was capable of this hoax.

Scholem, Nock, Lieberman, Gaster, and at least a couple of his students knew he was capable of this hoax.

"MS got early liturgy wrong." Wrong for what fit Clement in Egypt.
This, supported from, iirc, Robin Jenson (a Columbia grad, I think), and Peter Jeffrey, an early liturgy specialist, and a colleague prof of Smith's at Columbia.