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by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:58 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

Well perhaps with that analogy yes. But I wrote: Do I think that Mark Goodacre would forge a text to prove Q didn't exist? No I would never believe that. I would attack anyone who suggested such a proposition with almost the same vigor I have defended Morton Smith. I stand by that. I think Goodacre ...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:40 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

I consider Marcion one of my only areas of expertise. I don't go along with the rest of the Marcionophiles. I don't think we have a clue what the text of Marcion looked like and I have argued with the proponents of "Marcion studies" here at the forum with just as much vigor as with this to...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

In antiquity there was a divide between "pro-canon" and "anti-canon" with respect to the documents Irenaeus collected as authoritative in the Church. Until the discovery of the Letter to Theodore there were only whispers of alternatives to the canon. Now with the letter there is ...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

By "click" do you mean "clique"? As a Canadian by birth I always draw attention to the difficulty Americans have with French words (no "foyer" does not rhyme with "lawyer"). As for proposed gospel sources, extra L for Luke and extra M for Matthew are sometime...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The Rampant Forgery of Written Documents in the Greek Monasteries
Replies: 2
Views: 71

Re: The Rampant Forgery of Written Documents in the Greek Monasteries

I still say, look at the genre. Matthew is undoubtedly a pseudepigraphon and a forgery. Luke is a pseudepigraphon and a forgery. John is a pseudepigraphon and a forgery. Acts is a pseudepigraphon and a forgery. The some of the letters of Paul are Catholic forgeries others are largely falsified. It's...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:01 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

It's not "criticizing" an Englishman for having an English reaction. I am Canadian originally. Canadians are more mannerly than Americans because of the British influence. But as I always say to people being polite isn't the same thing as being nice. You're not getting the point about sing...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:22 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

I am unclear. I am saying that Duke was the epicenter of the anti-gay anti-Morton Smith conspiracy where (a) a particular reading of the text ("naked man and naked man") is (b) linked with a particular view of Morton Smith (that he was an enraged homosexual seeking revenge on Christianity)...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

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by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:12 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?
Replies: 22
Views: 268

Re: Agamemnon Tselikas’ Handwriting Analysis Report Did Morton Smith Forge "Secret Mark"?

Nor Ariel Sabar. Was the article even about the document? It was an expose on Morton Smith's bad character. All 8 references to Clement : The circumstances of the discovery were admittedly complicated. What Morton Smith claimed to find at the monastery wasn’t some first edition of Secret Mark on pa...
by Secret Alias
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: On the "Bad Character" Argument
Replies: 0
Views: 41

On the "Bad Character" Argument

Sabar's new article on Morton Smith (the Mar Saba document is a mere footnote) follows an old prosecutorial tactic - demonstrate that someone is evil or has "bad character" and that individual will be easier to convict. Hence the appeal to lines of reasoning which would be generally inadmi...