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... the ever-changing goalposts with respect to Morton Smith's abilities in Greek. Are you suggesting that Smith ... in this way. I'm not sure that it matters, the Mar Saba letter (if we had the full text) would be doing something ...

... connect James Hogg Hunter's The Mystery of Mar Saba [1940] to 'Indiana Jones & The Raiders ... note the protagonist was curiously named "Smith" in the originally storyboard transcript ... years after Jesus the Magician was published; Morton Smith's story was notorious by then. Kaufman ...

... in his essay 'Solving the Mysterion of Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark', used it as an illustration ... inspired by the James Hunter novel 'The Mystery of Mar Saba.' Pantuck : "I know of nobody..who has suggested ...

... Time! Motive You claim that evidence against Smith is "motive". You present claimed ... else? Any monk (or someone else) at Mar Saba (or elsewhere) from the 18th century forward ... you cheat to win...you still win." - Morton Smith The New Porphyry

Morton Smith makes a number of observations regarding the circumstances ... the strongest reason for thinking this one remained at Mar Saba is (after the fact that it was found there) the absence of any ...

... 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 ...

... there is a general problem; claiming that Morton Smith composed the Mar Saba letter is prima-facie a startling claim and naturally encourages ...

... with Panaanen. Some of the arguments linking Morton Smith to the Mar Saba letter do appear flimsy. (After reading and enjoying Anglo-Saxon ...

... with Panaanen. Some of the arguments linking Morton Smith to the Mar Saba letter do appear flimsy. (After reading and enjoying Anglo-Saxon ...

... was indeed a transfer of manuscripts from Mar Saba to Jerusalem in 1865. Morton Smith wrote: The manuscripts of Mar Saba proved, on examination, ...