This, though, was not a published book.
If you read Smith's reviews, you may get a sense of his humor.
Or if you heard him in person, as I did.
Such as the time he remarked that an article had been misprinted,
because it lacked the word
"Amen."
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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
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Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
Morton Smith hand-wrote "Manuscript Material from the Monastery of Mar Saba, discovered, transcribed and translated by Morton Smith," dated 1958. It includes a Preface. On a preliminary page he wrote "Manufactured in the United States." This may bean example of his type of humor....
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 989
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
I suggest that it is a false dichotomy to claim that literature is either "authentic" or "popular and successful." There are other collections of letters--and history books--that are both. If I understand your writing correctly, you posit--in order to "help biblical scholars...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:07 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: 1715 Clement edition
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- Views: 891
Re: 1715 Clement edition
Maybe so, Adam. As the formula goes: he writes English better than I write Greek. At least on the surface, there may be some tensions between portions of his report. But this sentence (no. 19 in Textological observations) is clear: "Once we prove that the handwriting of the letter is alien to t...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
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- Views: 7042
Re: John the Baptist, redivivus of a 2015 article
That's a lot of unsupported "assume"s.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 989
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
If I may suggest, the one-source (imposed? modern?) product drop model in early Christianity does not persuasively take into account the long negotiations about the various-located accretions of text toward a canon, more or less, but not entirely, shared by Christians.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: naked or nakeds in the "Letter to Theodore"
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naked or nakeds in the "Letter to Theodore"
I suggest that naked, singular, was more likely intended than nakeds, plural, given the text context.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
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Re: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
To be clear, the letter written in Hebrew by Smith is now in the Hebrew University collections.
It was translated into English for publication in the Smith-Scholem Correspondence volume by Yonatan Moss, who has noted elsewhere that Smith's modern Hebrew was not fluent.
It was translated into English for publication in the Smith-Scholem Correspondence volume by Yonatan Moss, who has noted elsewhere that Smith's modern Hebrew was not fluent.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
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Re: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
Between Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), if that is who is intended, would not chronologically (if chronology is intended) fit Israel Regardie (1907-1985). Maybe "Eliphas Levi" (1810-1875)? If anyone wishes to research it, the letter is at Hebrew University. And ther...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 28
- Views: 989
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
IMO, you, JarekS, have not shown that "The corpus was created and edited in one place."