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Though the book by G. Smith and B. Landau on "Secret Mark" makes a good case that the "Letter to Theodore" was written long after Clement died, the book did not make a good case that the "Letter" was composed within the 4th to 8th centuries. There are imo several reason...

Transliterations from one language to another sometimes vary; that is, there is often more than one known transliteration. For example, what is the capital of China? Is it Peiping, Peking, Pequim, Pekin, Beiping, or Peiping, or Beijing? Or, go to the appropriate Chinese character. Transliterations s...

spin recently made three claims: 1) That Burkitt's "Syriac Forms of New Testament Proper Names" was largely ignored. That is plainly false. 2) That my Nazarenes article did not include mention of differing views. That is plainly false. 3) That Greek variable transliterations of Nazareth ar...

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For starters, mentions of Burkitt's publication: 1912 The Times [London] Thursday, Jan. 25, 1912, Issue 39804, p. 11, column 2 1912 The Athenaeum; London Iss. 4411, (May 11, 1912): 532 1912 Expository Times 1913 JTS v.14, p.474 1913 Menzies 1914 Champlin Burrage, Nazareth and the Beginnings of Chris...

I gave one example of Burkitt being cited and another case of it being reprinted. I could give bibliography of many other citations. Do you dispute that, or do I need to provide a dozen or so to show your claim false? Anchor Bible Dictionary, "Nazarenes," IV: 1049ff, by me, includes: "...

I have read Burkitt. His publication has been cited numerous times. There has not been a "general silence" about it. For example, it was cited in G. Kittel, ET, Theological Dictionary of the NT. There is a great deal of literature on Nazareth, plus excavation, and the Caesarea inscription ...

Two main theories: a) a Mar Saba monk in about the 18th-century copied an older text. b) the text is a modern imitation of 18th-century text, as A.T. wrote it was. In (a) a penner would write in his current handwriting, not imitating the supposed earlier copy handwriting. Added: so no imitation-type...

...so writing about how these names may or may not be transliterated into Greek may miss that point.
What does Nazara or other variant spellings mean in Greek?

Thank you, Andrew. We agree that "the singular is more likely in context than the plural." As for interpreting "the question whether the letter looks more like an iota or a sigma," I can add one thing. It may or may not be relevant. But, I think, it has not yet been mentioned her...