Recent content by Steven Avery

The information that would be helpful, especially for the New Testament, but even for one book, or one section, like the Pauline Epistles. How many large sections have corrections, and which original scribe and which corrector(s) are involved? The scribes can be worked with two hypotheses, one...

Actually, the elderly Venedictos died in 1839. If I remember the account, he had actually been at Russico for 70 years, a totally different history than that of the Benedict of Syme of Simonides. Otherwise, makes sense that there were two, however the Simonides descriptions fit Vissarion of...

David Daniels and Nikolos Farmakidis researched Benedict of Symi, using a variety of sources. Simple question. Do you consider the Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, writing of Vissarion of Symi, to be a secret pseudonym for Constantine Simonides?

Did you read about the 106-year-old Benedict? So far, he is not given a bio other than many decades at Russico, and there actually are no copious details and his Theological and monastery history is quite different and he is not said to be from Symi and he is not connected with Simonides. So...

You are welcome to try to seek clarity over politics. Sinaiticus offers up many puzzles.

Do you have any reason to think that Matthew, Mark, Luke or Acts are any different?

My question to Nicholas Fennel is up in the public section of PBF: And I probably should not have said the bold "of Symi".

If he ran to the pier, he was more likely 79 than 105. See Nicholas Fennell above, one of the sources recommended by Kevin McGrane, who sees this gentleman distinct from Benedict of Symi. Note that he refers to "the Older Venedikt", so that source Greek should be checked. And it is...

Lake added his motive: "Simonides ... attempted to discredit the experts who had helped to detect his fraud" Maybe Tischendorf is supposed to be "experts"? And is that why he made his very similar Shepherd of Hermas before the Sinaiticus discovery? To anticipate the "experts" who would go...

You actually do not seem to have done much of anything. ca, supposedly long after the scriptorium, was often the big honcho corrector. And hardly any are from supposed original scribes. And D is nowhere to be found. Here are the large omissions in John. John 3:20 - ca John 3:21 - ca John 4:45...

Here you are edit seeking to stir up strife. (And Kevin has made it clear that you try to do the same privately, always the posturing politician.) As I am very thankful for the labour Kevin McGrane has put into the Sinaiticus question and hope that his new work is released ASAP. Kevin has...

And I did place some translated Parfeny Aggeev writing up yesterday, as I made up a special page for Aggeev, doubtful that it counts as "copious details".

He has written on Russian monks on Mount Athos and is referenced in the Kevin McGrane - Cooper paper. As I said earlier.

And I am not sure what that means, we know they were bumbling scribes that made many hundreds of singular bad errors, often omission, sometimes addition, and also transposition. Dirk Jongkind goes into the details a bit, without really emphasizing homoeteleutons, which are helpful for...

The Ca corrector was likely post-Athos, in the manuscript travels from Constantinople to Antigonus to Sinai. David Daniels goes into this quite a bit.