Steven Avery
Administrator
A Review of 'The Forging of Codex Sinaiticus' by Dr W.R. Cooper against detailed background of the discovery of the Codex
By Kevin McGrane
https://www.academia.edu/37556820/A...iled_background_of_the_discovery_of_the_Codex
Having stated in his 1862 narrative to The Guardian that he had made a trip to Sinai in 1852 and seen his manuscript there in a modified state, Simonides in 1863 invented an earlier trip to Sinai timed to occur just before Tischendorf’s first visit in 1844, and this he weaves into Barnabas as an anticipation. Writing to Rodokanakis, he explains that the Barnabas epistle was ‘a minor component (as I now recall)’ and that
‘I wrote it also on the transcript…the contents of which languish in the monastery of Sinai’, but that when this coming December [1843] we both pass over to Mount Sinai, as prearranged, I will show you all these things and the acrostics for your interest.
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Simonides set up a real person to act as a false witness for him, an author who had achieved some fame with a novel in 1840, who was well known in Smyrna and from a powerful family.199
199 Gennadius had intelligence that Barnabas was also serving the interests of the fake ‘Prince’ Demetrios Rodokanakis in London. Was his relative in Smyrna being set up to assist with some fake history for that enterprise as well?
By Kevin McGrane
https://www.academia.edu/37556820/A...iled_background_of_the_discovery_of_the_Codex
Having stated in his 1862 narrative to The Guardian that he had made a trip to Sinai in 1852 and seen his manuscript there in a modified state, Simonides in 1863 invented an earlier trip to Sinai timed to occur just before Tischendorf’s first visit in 1844, and this he weaves into Barnabas as an anticipation. Writing to Rodokanakis, he explains that the Barnabas epistle was ‘a minor component (as I now recall)’ and that
‘I wrote it also on the transcript…the contents of which languish in the monastery of Sinai’, but that when this coming December [1843] we both pass over to Mount Sinai, as prearranged, I will show you all these things and the acrostics for your interest.
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Simonides set up a real person to act as a false witness for him, an author who had achieved some fame with a novel in 1840, who was well known in Smyrna and from a powerful family.199
199 Gennadius had intelligence that Barnabas was also serving the interests of the fake ‘Prince’ Demetrios Rodokanakis in London. Was his relative in Smyrna being set up to assist with some fake history for that enterprise as well?