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Deflection from an accusation of deflection. You could teach a course on deflection. Write a handbook.

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They all make Ben C Smith into a martyr because of his departure from the forum. You were always number 1 to me.

You got to be kidding me. We were having a discussion about the certificate of authenticity and its implications. Whenever you accuse anyone at the forum of "deflection" remember this conversation.

Ok you accuse everyone of distraction. The certificate mentions only the letter of Clement. Andrew introduced the secret gospel as a way of distraction. You perpetuated it. The original discussion was about the letter of Clement and whether the certificate of authenticity meant the letter was known ...

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...