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Smith had been previously searching manuscripts. At Mar Saba he went to catalog books not manuscripts, though not a librarian nor bibliographer?
And just happened to find a manuscript in a book near his last day? Coincidence?

It is an indication. An argument. Or maybe you, as an owner, puts Clement notes in your Ignatius folder.

In some degree---cumulatively. If you had a note about Clement, would you note it with Clement or with Ignatius.

Scholem, Nock, Lieberman, Gaster, and at least a couple of his students knew he was capable of this hoax.

Scholem, Nock, Lieberman, Gaster, and at least a couple of his students knew he was capable of this hoax.

"MS got early liturgy wrong." Wrong for what fit Clement in Egypt.
This, supported from, iirc, Robin Jenson (a Columbia grad, I think), and Peter Jeffrey, an early liturgy specialist, and a colleague prof of Smith's at Columbia.

"If a monk wanted to record "Clement" why not do it instead in the Clement edition owned in Mar Saba?" I already supported this today. The 1715 two-volume folio edition of Clement attested at Mar Saba would be a much more plausible place to annotate a Clement addition then in a V...

Smith was a Christianity lover, then a Christianity hater.
Sure, I defend that statement.
Why misrepresent my position?

The authorship is more consonant with Smith than Clement.

I defend them all.
Was it this one that offended you:
"Tselikas' expertise of an imitation of earlier text, an imitation that could have been any time until 1958."?
Absolutely, an imitation can have occured in the 1950s.