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IIRC, one of Morton Smith’s teachers suggested he search for mss of Isidore of Pelusium’s ... genuine and also associated, via John of Damascus, with Mar Saba. The quotes in any case are brief (Karl Holl, pages 120-1, ...

IIRC, one of Morton Smith’s teachers suggested he search for mss of Isidore of Pelusium’s ... genuine and also associated, via John of Damascus, with Mar Saba. The quotes in any case are brief (Karl Holl, pages 120-1, ...

... the surface at least, more plausible than the Morton Smith angle. On the one hand, they would be interested in ... my memory banks I remember reading some problem at Mar Saba and the Jerusalem Patriarchate with Greek Freemasons ...

... by the American professor of religion Morton Smith at the Mar Saba monastery in the Palestinian territory in 1958. There are some ...

... episcopal line) it is not surprising that the gospel of Mark comes up. Smith on the other hand, had from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Th.D. ... of his having visited a number of monasteries before he want to Mar Saba. An Italian scholar connects his interest in Jewish mysticism to the ...

That Smith published in 1958 a 41-page article on Philosophumena, a text that mentions a variant version or interpretation of gMark—maybe coincidence.

M. Smith, "The Descriptions of the Essenes in Josephus and the. Philosophumena," HUCA 29 (1958) pp. 273-313. Somewhere, if I recall correctly, Shaye Cohen wrote that Smith later changed his mind about this article’s proposal (about the relation of the two texts).

... didn't happen. So now we have to imagine that Morton Smith spend days imitating Clement and Mark but not the ... that a seventeenth or eighteenth century scribe at Mar Saba picked up a scrap from an older manuscript and copied ...

Selected errors: I have not written that Morton Smith was a Sabbatean, but that Smith suggested a parallel between the Jesus as depicted in the “Clement” ...

... It's dangerous to promote nonsense like 'Morton Smith was a Sabbatean' or part of a Sabbatean plot. You know better than that. It only 'works' ...