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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...

Smith was not prevented from marrying.
Flusser was not stupid.

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.

If David Flusser, who was quite smart, said Smith excused himself by saying he could not marry a Catholic, maybe that is true. Hypothesizing he meant Jewish when he reportedly said Catholic is not yet persuasive. Of course Smith had relationships with women. So what. Wild, unreliable, guess: "S...

Why would either reading greatly change the overall facts? In other words, has the significance been, somewhere, exaggerated?

Thanks gdoudna for that additional information. Though I think M. Smith was gay (or, bi), that is not at all the main issue for scholarship. People of whatever sexual orientation can contribute to learning. M. Smith surely did. The issue for historians is whether the Letter to Theodore is genuine Cl...

Wasn't that hymn written before Christianity existed?

If we trust the published (by BAR) words of Agamemnon Tselikas, rather than hearsay, he stated that the writing in the 1646 Voss book was a modern imitation of older writing, probably done by Morton Smith or an accomplice of Smith, and Smith brought the Voss book (presumably already inscribed) to Ma...

I try to understand. If my posts and publications do not suggest such to you, I'm not sure what it would take.