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- Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is it Really "Uncertain" that John of Damascus Writing at Mar Saba Cites From "Letter 21" of "Clement the Stromatist"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21026
Re: Is it Really "Uncertain" that John of Damascus Writing at Mar Saba Cites From "Letter 21" of "Clement the Stromatist
... repeating your talking points. They're from another reality. Either Morton Smith had a time machine or the exemplar said Κλήμεντος στρωματέως ἐπιστολὴ. This isn't a mistake. ...
- Mon Jul 29, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Question for Testimonium Flavianum Forgery Proponents
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7379
Re: Question for Testimonium Flavianum Forgery Proponents
... off the largely-irrelevant question of Mar Saba authenticity This quote will be on Goranson's ... ) , once offered me this characterization : Morton Smith is like a little boy whose goal in life is to write ...
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Exploring the Overlooked Connection: "τἀληθῆ ἀλήθεια" in Clement's Letter to Theodore and Plato's Phaedrus
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5008
Re: Exploring the Overlooked Connection: "τἀληθῆ ἀλήθεια" in Clement's Letter to Theodore and Plato's Phaedrus
... war" over gospel exegesis. In this case, Morton Smith must have figured out that, based on the Protrepticus, ... between Platonic Christian sects into the Mar Saba library in 1958, you decide, when explaining your invented ...
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Exploring the Overlooked Connection: "τἀληθῆ ἀλήθεια" in Clement's Letter to Theodore and Plato's Phaedrus
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5008
Unveiling the Philosophical Depth: Clement's Reference to Plato's Phaedrus in the Letter to Theodore
... who misinterpreted spiritual nakedness. Morton Smith did not see any of this because he was not an expert ... are only known to have survived at Mar Saba according to the witness of John of Damascus in late ...
- Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Is it Really "Uncertain" that John of Damascus Writing at Mar Saba Cites From "Letter 21" of "Clement the Stromatist"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 21026
Re: Is it Really "Uncertain" that John of Damascus Writing at Mar Saba Cites From "Letter 21" of "Clement of Alexandria"
... 2: there is evidence for what is found in the Letter to Theodore and Morton Smith knew it and used it to construct the text . It's ridiculous. It's like "living with ...
- Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Photius and the Stromateis: Unveiling a Variant Ending
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3017
Re: Photius and the Stromateis: Unveiling a Variant Ending
... an alternative ending of the Stromateis. Morton Smith always hhad the last word on his discovery, at least ... that survived a fire, hypothesizing it existed at Mar Saba since the time of John of Damascus. The absence of ...
- Wed Jul 10, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Understanding How Morton Smith Repurposed Clement's Writings to Make the Letter to Theodore.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7066
Re: Understanding How Morton Smith Repurposed Clement's Writings to Make the Letter to Theodore.
Here is the situation: 1. Morton Smith might be imagined to have "built" the conclusion ... to the letter and it got destroyed in a fire at the Mar Saba monastery and blah blah blah. Because he doesn't know ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Clement of Alexandria and secret letters
- Replies: 58
- Views: 42130
Re: Clement of Alexandria and secret letters
... way. I'm not sure that it matters, the Mar Saba letter (if we had the full text) would be doing ... says can't be done. I think it is likely that Morton Smith knew of this passage and chose not to refer to it. ...
- Fri Jun 21, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Origins of the Ligatures in to Theodore Go Back to the Earliest Printed Greek Books c. 1500
- Replies: 52
- Views: 18516
Re: The Origins of the Ligatures in to Theodore Go Back to the Earliest Printed Greek Books c. 1500
... might get rid of the ligature issue. Maybe Morton Smith found a manuscript in one of the monasteries, stole ... creation inscribed inside the pages of Voss into Mar Saba. Surely Tselikas would have known of examples of the ...
- Wed Jun 19, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Clement of Alexandria and secret letters
- Replies: 58
- Views: 42130
Re: Clement of Alexandria and secret letters
I think it is likely that Morton Smith knew of this passage and chose not to refer to it. Possibly ... Itter this work involves detailed discussion of the Mar Saba letter which Itter regards as authentic and uses maybe ...