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This has been the dumbest conversation ever about this letter. THE DUMBEST. I remember we all went to dinner after he came back from Mar Saba. He was very excited about his discovery. He went on forever about how he came across this letter of the Church Father Clement . Yet at the same time he could...

Smith wrote that he told Scholem about "it." The antecedent of "it" is "the Secret Gospel of Mark." Right and I am talking about the Letter. That's my point. The certificate doesn't mention Secret Mark. I don't understand why Andrew goes off on this rabbit hole about &...

No. It wouldn't have included Seraphim. Seraphim wasn't an academic so those conversations and Smith's Greek didn't allow him much depth. Will you admit that the things I write and research on the subject of Secret Mark are of more value and interest than these 800+ articles https://www.nasscal.com/...

Officially. These are the only conversations that have ever took place with regards to Secret Mark https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/secret-gospel-of-mark/ None of our discussions are memorialized here or at the other forum. I think our forum is of more value than this https://www...

"Nobody else ever mentioned." All the conversations at this forum are never considered part of the memorialized "timeline" of discussions of the manuscript in a bibliography. Smith isn't talking about people in the monastery. He's talking about recorded conversations in scholarly...

This is the strangest debate ever on the subject of to Theodore. I have a meeting with my son's teacher. Why do I have to know my son's grades to tell someone "I've got an appointment with my son's teacher." I don't understand your obsession with Morton Smith knowing all the contents of th...

spin is my Ben C Smith. They all weep for Ben like he's the dying Adonis.

If Litwa had included the quoted statement in a university publication, the reviewer would have formally ridiculed it, asking a rhetorical question - how does the author know what he is writing?

We got another one.

StephenGoranson = the Elder Cato.