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... imitation occurred could have been penned at any time before 1958. R. Morton Smith was an artist, a sketcher, and an intelligent and hard worker, and it is a logical option ...

... only to WASP scholars who speculate that Morton Smith planted the document and ignore the guy who ran the Mar Saba monastery when Morton Smith discovered the document when he ...

... more commonly been dropped in this controversy (alluding of course to Morton Smith personally using his own skills to write it), although it was something frequently ventured, ...

... questioned document examiner to study Mar Saba 65 and consider whether Morton Smith could have forged it. Shanks asked the two experts to work ...

And, SA, as for your shotgun proposal, above Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:57 am, that WASPs
ganged up on Smith, wasn't Smith, um, a WASP?

Please remind me what I said. It makes me feel important.

the new evidence in April Atlantic. = what does it matter if the text doesn't say "naked man with naked man."

And, SA, as for your shotgun proposal, above Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:57 am, that WASPs
ganged up on Smith, wasn't Smith, um, a WASP?

No.
You apparently can't even bring yourself, yet, to consider, e.g., the new evidence in April Atlantic.
And you, still of and on wavering whether Clement wrote it.

Why can't we just admit that there is no conclusive evidence either way that this manuscript is a forgery. Why isn't that a good starting point?

Ok. There's no evidence that he planted the manuscript.