Steven Avery
Administrator
In my experience, academics sometimes do have a handle on elegance.
However, simplicity is much more difficult for the academic to accept.
(Especially if they are in what is considered a tech-geek area like textual criticism. Similar with manuscript collation, and related fields.
What is amazing about the basic Sinaiticus issues is that they are exceedingly simple. The proverbial fifth grader can easily see and understand the colouring of the manuscript. They can look at The Tale of Two Manuscripts and put together A-B-C.
My friends can watch the Sinaiticus British Library turn pages like a Life Magazine and chuckle about the purported history. And manuscripts turn yellow with use and age, even the British Library tells you that. Yet the Leipzig pages remain snow-white after their supposed 1650 years, with much movement and heavy use. No grime. You don't need rocket science to figure this one out.
The academic can not. Dubious presuppositions abound. And how many peer-review papers have your written? How's your Greek geek? This question was discarded long ago.
Yada. And a Yada. And some more.
Even the manuscript people go all over the map. "Hey, I saw a purple dye fade on a manuscript .. you should be an expert like me."
Bottom line, the Sinaiticus physical manuscript issues are exceedingly simple. See the smoking gun page and then do some study.
Steven Avery