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Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:59 pm Knowledge has an in itself value. There's no justification needed for saying "hey I discovered something."

Alright.

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:48 pm The title of the thread is " Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives"

To what end? Maybe we can make a calendar with all these Greek monks. Call it the Monk of the Month?

That's not the point. Surely Seraphim and Kallistos preserve the original attitude of the Mar Saba monastery and before you people spread around these "gay gospel" reports which poisoned the well with the Patriarchate. Yes it's the original attitude. Yes some of these monks were there bef...

As I have repeatedly written, the front cover, the front page, and the spine binding had all gone missing, erasing potential marks of previous, non Mar Saba ownership. I know. https://web.archive.org/web/20110616022558/http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Secret/discussion-hoax.html Stephen Carlson a...

Was there any evidence in the Isaac Voss edition about its prior ownership? Notes in it from other hands, besides the famous one?

My point here is different: Even assuming the more subtle concession a conservative reader may give to the storm called Marcion, i.e. that both Marcion and Luke are based on a proto-Luke (in turn based on Matthew), the result is still a strong shadow of doubt on the certainty that a first gospel (M...

It's an argument only a mother could love. Haven't there always been gospels dated to the second century?

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:11 pm My point is more sound: once a canonical synoptic gospel is placed around the time of Marcion (second century) there are no reasons to place the others (one or all) still in the first century.

Never mind, you're talking about Luke.

Are you assuming that Marcion was responsible for the authorship of the Gospel that he published?

If not, how are you dating *Ev?

If I weren't already interested in the subject, you'd certainly help steer me away from it. That's a legacy.