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John of Damascus, who was at Mar Saba from circa 715 to 750, wrote about heresies, many of those previously included in Epiphanius, Panarion, including Carpocratians, plus some newer ones. Carpocrates he called an Asiatic. No mention of Alexandria. No mention of "Secret Mark." For Smith's ...

Clarification and correction. Above in this thread, Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:17 pm, I wrote: ""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 colleag...

LC previously wrote, Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:49 pm, in part: "...how are we supposed to start looking at the historical evidence? It looks like a mess. Unless you have some better ideas I'm just trying to tidy it up a little." I suggest the "implications" of "assumptions" ab...

Well, that's a "strong opinion."

There appears to be a general trend of dating some Qumran mss earlier than previous estimates and date ranges, as I wrote before. One recent example, in this subforum: Palaeo-Hebrew: a new advance by StephenGoranson » Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:03 am, and M. Langlois on paleo-Hebrew paleography of several m...

Niels P. Lemche (U. Copenhagen) wrote an essay, April, 2024 at
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/article ... rminus-quo

I was not persuaded.
Others?

The question remains, whether your one-source total manufacture proposal is so obviously true.
Or whether, though I don't see that proposal as plausible, I am allowed to think something different.

One of the variables in claims about when the five books of Torah were written or completed is whether or when what counts as being completed.
By, e.g., Gmirkin.
By, elsewhere, Lemche.
And others.

If, rgprice, "trying to sort all of this out has been impossible,"
why did you say "I have no doubt..."?
Does that mean that the sorting out was previously impossible, but, in your view,
it is now sorted out, and, if so,
partially or completely?

JarekS, you have repeated your "marketing and content sales" pitch.
No sale.