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Simonides letter of January 21st, 1863, quoted by Avery on his blog. The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 65, 1863 Page 394. "First, that my uncle Benedict, being by profession a theologian, and versed in twelve languages [... missing context here folks] began this work while Professor in the...

The real take away from this "folks" is ... The SART Team, even after writing a book on the subject... more than 10 thousand blog posts... thirteen plus years of collective searching...and Still today! The SART Team (is it really a team? is Avery really a team player?) Doesn't really know...

So nowww you admit THERE ARE multiple people who could plausibly be CONFOUNDED WITH (and you effectively admitted you were confused and puzzled) Simonides real "Benedict". That's a keeper. And exactly my point. And exactly what Simonides wanted.

Sorry. I meant, take a photograph today at Athos of the manuscripts Simonides is purported to have copied, that are listed in the Lambros catalogue, for the purpose of being compared with the Codex Sinaiticus' main copyist's script (because Steven said quite a while back that Simonides was...

So you propose that, at Athos, at this time, Simonides would write every single letter of a cursive (lower case) copy of John of Damascus' Easter homily with NO CAPITALS (unicial script) AT ALL? So it's... "Nothing to see here folk's" ... "Move a long!"... Hmmm I don't think so.

Actually. It's not implausible, or highly improbable it could be returned (if based on the quality of the monastery's manuscript storage facilities etc). It now has state of the art temperature and humidity controlled storage facilities (built through the early 2000's up till 2017, I think, by...

If he's on Mt. Athos, on March 27th, copying manuscripts, in 1841, how old is Simonides? Simonides says, how old? Kallinikos says, how old?

The Lambros catalogue entry 6405 has the name "Constantine Simonides"... Correct? Or incorrect? Spyridon Lambros Catalogue, Vol. II (1900, p. 454 ) Page 454 Paper, 8. (0,21 x 0,155). 19th Century. (Folia: 10) "A canon of the holy and great Easter Sunday, that is, of the glorious Resurrection...

What else can you expect with Simon sez level testimony. It's distorted for a purpose. Part of it's purpose is to lead you (the Simon sez dupe) on a wild goose chase down multiple plausibility rabbit holes 🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️. Simonides knew there was more than one "Benedict" there at the same...

That's another, even better, keeper "folks"! Avery straight out admits HE IS CONFUSED!

That's a keeper "folks"! Avery effectively admits he's confused (puzzled)!

Simon sez 69 = 70 at death. Yet. Farmakidis sez 79 = 80 at death. Ageev would hypothetically say 105 = 106 at death. Athos would hypothetically agree with Ageev, and hypothetically say 105 = 106 at death. Your sources are incompatible. Your witnesses are not in agreement. Your witnesses are...

Athos officially says Benedict was 106 years old at death. Parfney Ageev says also that Benedict was 106 years old at death. Farmakidis sez Benedict was 80 years old at death. Simon sez Benedict was 70 years old at death. A 20-30 year difference between Athos and Farmakidis and Simon sez...

Yes they would. You have them on your blog though...another forgotten post Steven? Or are you just pretending you don't know about it?

Kevin McGrane references Parfney Ageev's book and the official Mt. Athos archive records in his footnotes etc as sources of his research. Once again, you seek more to distort the picture about (your pet hate) Kevin McGrane. You focus on (i.e. contextomy) a quote or snippet as if that was the...