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He can't read it. Too blurry. Have sent another email to Smith and Landau. They must have ordered a better scan.

One translator asked me for 500 Euros to translate that letter. I found a Greek speaking Jewish translator who is willing to do it for free. Doesn't want to go into the Patriarchate to request the manuscript. Still have to find that.

Morton Smith respected by the Greek Orthodox Church. https://ir.lib.uth.gr/xmlui/bitstream/h ... sAllowed=y Is he in that picture?

This Seraphim is a big deal in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His death is listed as one of the key events in the religion and as I've already mentioned he is on the fast track to becoming a saint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_ ... te_ref-164

Another thing I love about the Mar Saba controversy is that you have the collision of two wholly separate worlds. The WASPs from Morton Smith down are like treating the Greeks like their fucking ...

I find this an intriguing line of reasoning from Smith and Landau: The Skeptic In this long litany of “things a responsible scholar ... and the capabilities (or lack thereof) of a desert monastery like Mar Saba to perform rigorous and specialized scientific tests on its manuscripts. Regarding ...

Thanks for the clarification. The example of his girlfriend was to demonstrate Smith had conversations with people who were not scholars. The context of the reference to his girlfriend. I said: "The idea that Smith didn't talk about the letter outside of recorded ...

Smith told Scholem, in Israel, about "Secret Mark" before he returned to New York.

Smith later commented on two of my draft essays.
One he called a hodgepodge, and he was right.
The other he was more complimentary about.
Both, revised, were later published, peer-reviewed.

The first documented conversation that Morton Smith had with a scholar was Scholem. This has been confirmed by the guy who knows everything about Morton ...

Smith and Landau's account of Smith's activities in 1958: The Find Some of Mar Saba’s holdings occasionally ended up in the surrounding caves. ... case that Smith's testimony limits the conversations that Morton Smith had about "a discovery the letter of Clement" ...