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What is clear from the evidence is that no one until today had any clue that Seraphim, the monk who struggled to keep the book and the manuscript at Mar Saba, was a resident of Mar Saba on the day Morton Smith found the book and the manuscript.

The list has 100 books. Morton Smith catalogues 489 books. Did he come to Mar Saba with a Uhaul?

Officially there were only 100 books in the Mar Saba library. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/agamemnon-anexe-4-list-of-books-1.pdf https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/agamemnon-anexe-4-list-of-books-2.pdf But as per Flusser's testimony: Oh yes, Flusser was ...

The monastery took the book to be their rightful possession. Hence the "elder Seraphim" and his tantrum and Flusser's impression about the book being returned to it's rightful place. It is even possible that Kallistos was impressed by the impassioned argument for ownership of book and the ...

Quesnell is like "don't you think this is going to harm Christianity" Kallistos is like I don't care. Twenty years later with all the gay stuff. They cared.

That's not the point. Surely Seraphim and Kallistos preserve the original attitude of the Mar Saba monastery and before you people spread around these "gay gospel" reports which poisoned the well with the Patriarchate.

Were there monks who thought the book and the manuscript were already in the Mar Saba monastery's library before Morton Smith. Yes or no?

My God.

Kallistos thought the handwriting was 18th century and reflective of the presence of heretics and heresies at Mar Saba. Seraphim also thought the book and the manuscript belonged to his monastery, the monastery of Mar Saba where he had been a resident for 19 years. = there are monastic witnesses for...

This is a powerful testimony of a longtime resident of Mar Saba, a resident who was there when Smith discovered the manuscript, that he believed the book and the manuscript belonged to the Mar Saba monastery. "They were about to bring it back when Abbot Seraphim raised hell said they had to req...