the research on Benedict - add David Daniels, textual sources

Steven Avery

Steven Avery

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First, Lilia Diamantopoulou, who is very well versed on Simonides, offered the idea that Benedict is Michael Sipachios, who was born in 1768 in Symi.

Die getäuschte Wissenschaft: Ein Genie betrügt Europa – Konstantinos Simonides
https://books.google.com/books?id=go7fDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA312

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Steven Avery

Steven Avery

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Who Faked the "World’s Oldest Bible"?
By David W. Daniels
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ap83EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA191

Benedict’s Project
Stewart’s biography did not include the project that Benedict had in mind. And think I know why. We’ll get to that later. Simonides summarized it this way:

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Journal of Sacred Literature (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=gnstAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228

While at Athos he [Benedict] gave himself up particularly to the study of the sacred Scriptures. He collected the most ancient MSS. of both Testaments, and of their commentators, and at considerable expense prepared his work for the press.
 
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Steven Avery

Steven Avery

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how could the young Simonides do all that intense textual work in a short period? - Benedict prep
https://purebibleforum.com/index.ph...ual-work-in-a-short-period-benedict-prep.596/

Christian Remembrancer (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=rPQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA396

Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=_bYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228

[...] he [Benedict] recalled me to Athos. I sailed from the Pireaus in the month of November, 1839, and landed again at Athos for the fifth time. After a few days I undertook the task of transcribing the Codex, the text of which as I remarked before, had many years previously been prepared for another purpose"

(Simonides, The Guardian 21. Jan 1863; published in The Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, 1863, Bd. 3, 228-229; vgl. daz.u auch Stewart 1859, 4 und Elliott 1982, 177).

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Steven Avery

Steven Avery

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Note #5 - post with McGrane corrections from Farmakidis and Fennel

Benedict bio - three names - Elliott extracts from Memoir

Simonides said he was 1) Basileion 2) Bessarion (Vissarion) (at Kydonies) 3) Benedict at Esphigmenos till his death (monk at Athos) Benedict of Symi Syme Benedict composed a famous hymn to the virgin that is still sung today. ... his teaching activities, the group behind the schools, the...
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