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That's a lot of unsupported "assume"s.

If I may suggest, the one-source (imposed? modern?) product drop model in early Christianity does not persuasively take into account the long negotiations about the various-located accretions of text toward a canon, more or less, but not entirely, shared by Christians.

I suggest that naked, singular, was more likely intended than nakeds, plural, given the text context.

To be clear, the letter written in Hebrew by Smith is now in the Hebrew University collections.
It was translated into English for publication in the Smith-Scholem Correspondence volume by Yonatan Moss, who has noted elsewhere that Smith's modern Hebrew was not fluent.

Between Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), if that is who is intended, would not chronologically (if chronology is intended) fit Israel Regardie (1907-1985). Maybe "Eliphas Levi" (1810-1875)? If anyone wishes to research it, the letter is at Hebrew University. And ther...

IMO, you, JarekS, have not shown that "The corpus was created and edited in one place."

In the latest Revue de Qumran, t. 35, f. 2 no. 122, pages 161-173 (I do consider RevQ a good source, even if no academic source is infallible. Full disclosure: I have published in RevQ.) Andrew Perrot and Emile Puech, "Cryptic C 4Q363a as a Palaeo-Hebrew Manuscript: 4Qpalaeo-Hebrew 363a" A...

Thanks for your comment, Andrew. Of course leitourgia *is* relevant if Morton Smith composed it, with his misunderstanding of that. I now have a copy of The Secret Gospel: The Discovery etc. 1973 at hand. By the way, MS mentioned leitourgia on page 7. But on another matter Andrew, if I may, having r...

If the handwriting were *actually* from the 18th century, not just similar-looking --though AT says it was later, and I think so too-- then Smith would not be the writer (composer and maybe penner). Btw, even if it *were* from 18th c. that would not necessarily prove it was penned at Mar Saba, espec...

Russell Gmirkin's claim that the first five books of the Hebrew Bible were "composed in their entirely about 273-272 BCE" in Alexandria is also, in my view, quite false. (The quote is from his 2006 Berossus and Genesis book.) As far as I know, though, Gmirkin is not a Dr. nor has he claime...