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And to take the example further. Seraphim and Kallistos had superior expertise with respect to Byzantine manuscripts. Better than most scholars. Tselikas has better knowledge than them. Tselikas has a catalogue of 100 books which lists clearly only some of the books that were in the monastic library...

There is the expertise regarding Byzantine manuscripts. There is the expertise regarding what manuscripts were in the monastery before 1958. Tselikas believes the manuscript is fake Seraphim believes the manuscript is authentic. Neither explains how they have arrived at their conclusions. Whom do we...

But surely if he accepted the document as authentic he had to believe that. Is it possible to believe the one without the other?

Let's compare also Seraphim of Mar Saba and Tselikas. Tselikas has seen more manuscripts than Seraphim. Tselikas has academic training. Tselikas has a better methodology in terms of figuring out what a manuscript says. What the ligatures are. Where they might come from. The dating of manuscripts. Al...

You've just assembled a list of ways of manipulating the evidence support forgery rather than a fair assessment of whether the evidence supports forgery. There's no "fairness" in your assessment. Tselikas claims he knows that Morton Smith took photos of these manuscripts that Tselikas hims...

Edgar Hoover might have been a great FBI director but surely he had weaknesses in some of his decision making. There might well be something unusual about the manuscript and Tselikas is picking up on it. I still think it is imperative that any scholar walk us through his reasoning so we can see how ...

I draw attention to Pantuck's paper about Tselikas's forgery proposition. Not only does Pantuck note that only six similarities between the manuscripts identified by Tselikas are identified in his "study." https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/secret-mark-handwriting-respo...

included some observations that were within his area of expertise, for instance, those that led him to summarize that the ms handwriting "is an imitation of an older script." That is within his expertise. Does familiarity with manuscripts necessarily lead to precision with respect to iden...

Apparently he might like my movie script 2.0. My friend Harry loves it. Maybe he can help me develop some of the stories at Mar Saba and the Patriarchate with better source material like Seraphim's diary. We will see. In the process of translating the whole screenplay into Greek (Tselikas speaks flu...