Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

... homophobic tropes with the far right but let's not forget that this 'Morton Smith was a Sabbatean' also fits as well: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/OHM_-_Hostienfrevel_Bild_1.jpg/800px-OHM_-_Hostienfrevel_Bild_1.jpg ...

That Morton Smith scared the hell out of some students, criticized a conference presenter to the point of tears, offered that ...

... you wrote that you felt like one of “the last of the Mohicans.” That Morton Smith’s “Clement” letter was not by Clement has been *argued in detail* by several scholars ...

Nothing about Morton Smith’s personal sexual status is essential nor necessarily relevant in hypothesizing that, after he lost his faith, he chose to embarrass some Christians by inventing a text, and eventually to be discovered as very clever for fooling some scholars.

... The whole scandal makes a mountain out of something that isn't even a molehill as far as the history or theology of Christianity is concerned. If Smith is a towering figure among apologists for atheism that is only because he was surrounded by runts.

... al.) already recognized the text as bogus. Several knew this before me. Morton Smith became an Episcopal deacon, then a priest, a believing Christian, presumably, according ...

... the discovery. There is no evidence to support the exclusion of the document from our understanding of history. It is of course possible that Smith was so masterful in the manufacture of his forgery that it has evaded our detection. The corruption - i.e. the forgery itself - could have developed ...

... consequence, slowly arriving. Geoffrey Smith recently showed persuasively (in LMWsymposium.com) ... not known to Origen, nor anyone else, before Morton Smith. Geoffrey Smith, and co-author Brent ... It has previously been suggested that the Mar Saba letter is an ancient forgery/pseudepigraph ...

... Flusser. The former thought the text genuine; the latter thought it was a fake. Will posters—avoiding, e.g., my question whether or not Geoffrey Smith’s proposal at LMWsymposium is persuasive--now call David Flusser a religious zealot or a Trump supporter?

... consequence, slowly arriving. Geoffrey Smith recently showed persuasively (in LMWsymposium.com) ... not known to Origen, nor anyone else, before Morton Smith. Geoffrey Smith, and co-author Brent ... Smith was “ethical’ by leaving the book at Mar Saba begs the question whether he planted it there, ...