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One of the other major theories about the pseudo-Clement Letter, besides the Morton Smith origin one, is that a Mar Saba monk sometime more or less in the eighteenth century, copied an earlier, incomplete, manuscript. Even on that theory, this would be merely a copy (of another copy?), in which (as ...

JarekS, you repeat your view that some person or central agency in Rome supplied early Christianity "product," top down, but I don't see that you have shown that to be actually the case. Apparently there were differences between or among early Christians. Walter Bauer's book Orthodoxy and ...

So much posting about iota or sigma seems to ignore the probability that what was penned was penned by Smith or an accomplice and was taken as sigma, as textual context suggests, in Smith's transliteration and translation "with minor corrections," 1958. Added: remember, those three pages w...

Guiseppe's effort to remove Jesus from the time of Pilate has been based on his interpretation of Greek and/or on a different and contradictory interpretation of Hebrew, and on an effort to date Jesus earlier, to the era of Jannaeus (a well-known error) and, on an effort, contradictorily, to date Je...

For what it is worth,
I don't, so far, find either the proposed switch of Hyrcanus II for John the Baptist
nor the proposed switch of those two people named Jesus
plausible.

As you know, when the Egyptians started to write their language by borrowing (switching to) the Greek alphabet, they added some letters to make it the Coptic alphabet, because Egyptian language has some sounds that Greek did not. Similarly, Greek and Hebrew or Aramaic are not a complete phonetic mat...

Reportedly, perhaps, maybe, some more details about what Philodemus wrote about Plato's life: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site "....In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative...

Though the book by G. Smith and B. Landau on "Secret Mark" makes a good case that the "Letter to Theodore" was written long after Clement died, the book did not make a good case that the "Letter" was composed within the 4th to 8th centuries. There are imo several reason...

Transliterations from one language to another sometimes vary; that is, there is often more than one known transliteration. For example, what is the capital of China? Is it Peiping, Peking, Pequim, Pekin, Beiping, or Peiping, or Beijing? Or, go to the appropriate Chinese character. Transliterations s...

spin recently made three claims: 1) That Burkitt's "Syriac Forms of New Testament Proper Names" was largely ignored. That is plainly false. 2) That my Nazarenes article did not include mention of differing views. That is plainly false. 3) That Greek variable transliterations of Nazareth ar...