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StephenGoranson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:55 am If a pre-1976 monastic publication has that, by 2024, would not someone by now have found it?

So why would I ask these questions? Because I am dishonest and refuse to admit the obvious that it must not exist?

... explanation is quite unlikely: If some monk copied the text in circa 18th century, then why would he try to imitate an unfamiliar style? Plus, on Smith's scenario, the putative older-than-18th-century ms copy would not have had that 18th-century style anyway for anyone to imitate!

A receipt from the transfer, signed by Dourvas among others, has recently surfaced. The paleographer Agamemnon Tselikas discovered it in the archives of the Patriarchal Library in Jerusalem. The document describes the letter of Clement as “unpublished and without any doubts about its authenticity.”...

Smith and Landau add something to the story: Flusser remembers that they did encounter one ... to leave with the book, “Abbot Seraphim,” an old friend of Smith who presided over Mar Saba, “raised hell,” demanding that “they would have to request it, and he would send it.”5 ...

... books that were in the monastic library of Mar Saba and comes to the conclusion that this demonstrates ... as to what books were in the library before Morton Smith and doesn't cite this rotten piece of evidence. Kallistos ...

Let's compare also Seraphim of Mar Saba and Tselikas. Tselikas has seen more manuscripts ... that the manuscript was in the library before Morton Smith got there. On some level this be true as he couldn't ...

... can help me develop some of the stories at Mar Saba and the Patriarchate with better source material ... movie from the 1970s with Ugo Tognazzi as Morton Smith and Sophia Loren as his Jerusalem love interest. Sophia ...

... handwritings found at a monasteries visited by Morton Smith in 1952 and that he must have photographed these handwriting examples to make the Mar Saba handwriting. Pantuck demonstrated that none of the manuscripts ...

They're all such fucking piece of shit. I mean I am loser. But I choose to be a loser. I could make twice the amount of money I do if I just had discipline and not waste my time researching this stuff. But these guys. They're like serious losers. Like who fucking cares about half this shit. So let's...

And maybe because I said Marcionite studies is bullshit. Yeah I think I have been modest in trying to re-evaluate Tertullian, but the reception would be icy especially among those who have studied the Marcionite stuff the most. It's the single largest source of 'material'. Having full value as a mi...