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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter
- Replies: 29
- Views: 765
Re: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 763
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
"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...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
- Replies: 251
- Views: 3128
Re: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
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...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter
- Replies: 29
- Views: 765
Re: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter
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...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:37 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Spackling over the Crumbly Bits
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1193
Re: Who Built the Pyramids, again?
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...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Textual history of Euclid's "Elements"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 140
Re: Textual history of Euclid's "Elements"
Has there been the kind of textual criticism, analysis, history etc--of the sort done for NT books--been done for Euclid's elements? I've read various things, including, for example, that the current recension is from Hypatia of Alexandria, which I don't know how much or how little to give credence...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:18 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter
- Replies: 29
- Views: 765
Re: Comments on Handwriting Analysis and the Mar Saba Letter
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. IMVHO there is a general tendency in that the writer is not using cursive to writ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:58 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
- Replies: 251
- Views: 3128
Re: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
There is, so far, no evidence that Smith mentioned "Secret Mark" to any monk in 1958 or 1959. Morton Smith says on p.18 of Secret Gospel that the idea of him suppressing this controversial discovery was ruled out because he had already spoken to Scholem. This may imply that he had only sp...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
- Replies: 251
- Views: 3128
Re: Greek Monks Who Thought the Letter to Theodore was in the Mar Saba Monastery Before Morton Smith Arrives
According to Smith and Landau. Morton Smith said that he realized at Mar Saba that he had discovered a previously unknown letter of Clement against the Carpocratians. He took careful photographs which he only properly studied after leaving Palestine and arriving at Athens. This account makes it unl...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Distinguishing some questions about the "Letter to Theodore"
- Replies: 113
- Views: 1709
Re: Distinguishing some questions about the "Letter to Theodore"
I made an earlier post in a similar thread here To paraphrase: Tselikas did not strictly speaking establish that the handwriting is later than the 18th century, What Tselikas did claim to establish is that although the handwriting is in one sense an 18th century Greek cursive, the scribe is not writ...