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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...

No apparatus. For the translation yes. For forgery arguments no.

Another example. The most creative person isn't going to be the person you want doing your taxes.

There are times you'd like to know someone in the mafia.

You don't want to go on vacation with a miser.

Good parents should be attentive but not too attentive.

Analogies. Michelangelo has to be the best housepainter. Bach would be a prolific composer of commercial jingles. The restaurant of the chef that wins the TV show Chopped will have the best food. A prostitute would make a great wife. Someone that has good taste in clothes will be a good home decorat...

Why is the Tselikas the best paleographer? He's seen the most manuscripts. Does seeing the most manuscripts necessarily lead to the ability to identify forgeries? Not so sure we're all robots and we just need to download data and then the truth comes out. Not sure what would make a forgery detector....

No I'm saying

1. Paleography is primarily a descriptive enterprise
2. Do the same characteristics which lead to excellent descriptive ability also lead one to be more right than wrong with regards to forgery identification