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by AdamKvanta
Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:47 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 1715 Clement edition
Replies: 36
Views: 4583

Re: 1715 Clement edition

... Clement edition was sent from Jerusalem to Mar Saba or from Mar Saba to Jerusalem: It is worth ... the rare items were located, I don't think Morton Smith was much interested in cataloged items. I presume, ...
by RandyHelzerman
Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
Replies: 6
Views: 694

Re: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?

Here is one case, all from his 1973 book, The Secret Gospel. On page 6 MS recounted his 1941 visit to Mar Saba. He described the liturgy, which he attended, as "hypnotic." "I knew what was happening, but I relaxed and enjoyed it." (In what other context ...
by StephenGoranson
Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
Replies: 6
Views: 694

Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?

Here is one case, all from his 1973 book, The Secret Gospel. On page 6 MS recounted his 1941 visit to Mar Saba. He described the liturgy, which he attended, as "hypnotic." "I knew what was happening, but I relaxed and enjoyed it." (In what other context have ...
by AdamKvanta
Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
Replies: 46
Views: 7476

Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?

Morton Smith hand-wrote "Manuscript Material from the Monastery of Mar Saba, discovered, transcribed and translated by Morton Smith," dated ...
by StephenGoranson
Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:04 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
Replies: 46
Views: 7476

Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?

Morton Smith hand-wrote "Manuscript Material from the Monastery of Mar Saba, discovered, transcribed and translated by Morton Smith," dated 1958. ...
by Secret Alias
Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:41 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 1715 Clement edition
Replies: 36
Views: 4583

Re: 1715 Clement edition

... was a book of Clement of Alexandria in the Mar Saba library only works if you assume a priori that Morton Smith is the forger. What you can't see, apparently, (with you I ...
by StephenGoranson
Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:16 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 1715 Clement edition
Replies: 36
Views: 4583

Re: 1715 Clement edition

... Clement book-set (2 vols., folio) was in Mar Saba and was not chosen to be used. c) This, btw, ... the sort of bitter (Swift-ian) humor of R. Morton Smith.
by Secret Alias
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:07 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Equal Opportunity Offender: The Authenticity Side Misrepresentation
Replies: 33
Views: 2375

Re: Equal Opportunity Offender: The Authenticity Side Misrepresentation

... doubts about its authenticity" as in Smith and Landau because there is an unknown letter ... respect to whether or not it was forged by Morton Smith. 2. Kallistos read something about ... 1983, was demanding the manuscript stay at Mar Saba. 4. The manuscript was placed on the shelves ...
by AdamKvanta
Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 1715 Clement edition
Replies: 36
Views: 4583

Re: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter

... it instead in the Clement edition owned in Mar Saba? And do we know that Mar Saba owned the Clement edition in that time? Morton Smith wrote ( Clement of Alexandria , p. 289): As to the ultimate ...
by andrewcriddle
Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
Replies: 251
Views: 19014

Re: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives

Smith told Scholem, in Israel, about "Secret Mark" before he returned to New York. ... about. Both, revised, were later published, peer-reviewed. According to Secret Gospel Morton Smith told Scholem about the letter to Theodore about the Carpocratians, however Secret ...