Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

To a limited extent I agree with Panaanen. Some of the arguments linking Morton Smith to the Mar Saba letter do appear flimsy. (After reading and enjoying Anglo-Saxon attitudes I do not believe it influenced in any way the author of the Mar Saba letter.) However there is a general problem; claiming ...

Ken, one of the reasons Secret Mark can persuade about its authenticity is that it gives a detailed explanation about what Jesus went to do in Jericho (an explanation that is absent in Mark). Secret Mark clearly solves a problem in canonical Mark which troubles modern readers more than it apparentl...

................................................... More recent commentators https://sites.google.com/site/inglisonmarcion/home/marcion/marcions-gospel-and-the-synoptic-problem/is-marcions-gospel-based-on-mark have noted that the "omissions" by Marcion are strange in another way: They are...

Singular or plural? Here is Smith's translation from Secret Gospel (1973) page 17: "....But "naked [man] with naked [man]" and the other things about which you wrote are not found." In the Clement book (1973) page 447: "...But "naked man with naked man," ..."...

IIUC we are not only dealing with isolated unusual letter formations scattered through the letter. There seem to be consistent usages. For example the omicron upsilon with circumflex word ending occurs around 30 times in the letter. It looks to be normal cursive at first glance but it seems to be c...

IIUC we are not only dealing with isolated unusual letter formations scattered through the letter. There seem to be consistent usages. For example the omicron upsilon with circumflex word ending occurs around 30 times in the letter. It looks to be normal cursive at first glance but it seems to be co...

"MS got early liturgy wrong." Wrong for what fit Clement in Egypt. This, supported from, iirc, Robin Jenson (a Columbia grad, I think), and Peter Jeffrey, an early liturgy specialist, and a colleague prof of Smith's at Columbia. I entirely agree that liturgical explanations of Secret Mark...

Smith told Scholem, in Israel, about "Secret Mark" before he returned to New York. Smith later commented on two of my draft essays. One he called a hodgepodge, and he was right. The other he was more complimentary about. Both, revised, were later published, peer-reviewed. According to Sec...

IMHO not enough weight is being given to some of the specific claims made by Tselikas. See particularly palaeographic-observations-2 where Tselikas lists the unusual pattern of pen movements used in writing the letter. Paananen and Viklund addressed this here: What then of Tselikas’s list of ninete...

https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-built-the-pyramids Excavations in the 1990s into what researchers sometimes call “pyramid city” were crucial in establishing a modern understanding of not just how the pyramids were built but also by whom. Specifically, it was the discovery of large quantities of...