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    In the Wake of Simonides

    David Daniels in his video lecture, "The Big Con 01: The Con of Paleography", December 31, 2019, has tantalizing information about mss, e.g. Voynich, Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Kinderhook, etc. In this lecture, he points out the danger(s) of using paleography as the sole determiner to date a given...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    Dear Puxanto: Two issues, i.e. Sinaiticus and KJVO. Yes, the Sinaiticus is a curiously deviant manuscript vis-à-vis the Byzantine manuscript tradition. However, the Sinaiticus may (stress on ‘may’) be an attempt to get Vaticanus to be the ‘court eunuch’ to rule the kingdom. KJVO is a misnomer...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    Dear Mr. Steve: I concur totally with the following, which you wrote, " They needed Sinaiticus as a Robin to roll with the Batman of Vaticanus." The entire facade called Sinaiticus was about obfuscation, hiding Vaticanus' provenance from being the main issue. The latter is not one of...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    The difficulty with a riddle is that its solution still may be an enigma. The issue with Sinaiticus is that the relevance of a decision between it and the Majority Text or Textus Receptus has already been made by most modern translators and textual critics. Hence the smirky query, “Why do you...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    There is something I missed with Tischendorf climbing Mt. Sinai for the Holy Text as his (un)continuous attempt to claim the mantle of Moses and the Stone Tablets. I do not know on what level these archetypal formulations exist but I presume that he must have been aware of the similarities...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    Dear Readers: Someone may ask the question, "Would there be individuals who could or would manufacture 'fake' manuscripts?" To this, I have to use the strongest affirmative, "Absolutely!" I maintain that individuals, mentioned in the introductory post, i.e. Smith and Strang, belong to this...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    Part of Tischendorf’s narrative has been dismissed based on the premise that he ‘found’ Sinaiticus at St. Catherine in the kindling baskets. However, if he brought the manuscript to Mount Sinai, what would be a better place to find (i.e. save) leaves of the Sinaiticus. Tischendorf may have been...
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    In the Wake of Simonides

    In the Wake of Simonides Finnish ethnos through Elias Lönnrot’s Kalevala and Gaelic embers in James Mcpherson’s Ossian bear indirect echoes of Constantin von Tischendorf’s epic search for the ‘Manuscript’ (Sinaiticus) in the former and Constantine Simonides in the latter, both existed in the...
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