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More convolution in the Simonides mythology. This is not "scholarship", this is abusive nonsense.

My reactive post is that the Simonidesa mythology has metastasized to more than a dozen threads on at least two forums, with cross-references. Some participants in the KJV forum seem to have quit when faced with this mudslide of Simonides propaganda. And this damage can be easily traced to one...

I think it at least equally likely that Simonides's stories about the monestaries on the Sinai Peninsula were about old manuscripts and artwork in general, without specific mention of the Codex Sinaiticus.

I can think of another explanation: Maybe Uspensky could not read Arabic, or at least could not read this bit of Arabic, therefore did not realize it was an attempted correction of the text (or maybe he only counted Greek-language corrections), and therefor did not mention it.

The Shepherd of Hermas is the single longest document of the Apostolic Fathers. Nobody, ancient or modern, would suppose it could completely fit the relatively few surviving pages of Hermas. If Simonides (or anybody) was working with a limited number of blank pages there are quite a few...

We are now being told that Simonides was both a brilliant forger and a sloppy forger. And we are being told both of these stories by the same person.

The Tischendorf story is entirely plausible and its subsequent retellings have few serious variations, even if Tischendorf glosses over stealing the Codex from the monestary. The Simonides story, on the other hand, is very convoluted and, as time progresses, gets more convoluted and improbable...

I believe that photography was not invented until 1847.

I give up on the issues of who has or had rightful possession of the Sinaiticus, or where it ought to repose. But I still insist the Codex is the genuine fourth century ms, and not at all a 19th century fabrication.

I had previously mentioned somewhere the book, Portable Magic by Emma Smith. She has a chapter ("6. The Titanic and book traffic") that makes mention of attempts to restore/recover books of great cultural or historic significance. In particuler, she mentions Iceland, which became independent...

The likelihood that the Codex Sinaiticus will be returned to the obscurity of a monestary at Mt Sinai is quite low. In the meantime, the Codex is visible to everyone on the internet. https://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx

It makes no sense to me that, if Simonides worked up the Codex Sinaiticus only about 20 years before Tischendorf 'discovered' it, that so many pages would have gone missing in that short span. Two-thirds of the Shepherd of Hermas is a major example. It seems implausible that someone - ancient...

On another thread on March 14th, I offered this information: I am not sure whom I am supporting here but the Sinaiticus has only a part of the text of the Shepherd of Hermas, starting at the beginning, Vision I,i,1 and going to Mandate IV,iii,6. In the Loeb Classical Library edition (transl. by...

If, as is now being suggested, Simonides had a number (three, maybe) of accomplices also writing up Sinaiticus with him, it seems improbable that these people and/or that writing project could have remained a secret from the rest of the monestary.

I have previously mentioned Volume 2 of the W&H NT. In it, Hort makes it clear that variants from the TR were very seldom accepted when only Sinaiticus supported them, but that variants from Sinaiticus had to be supported by other ancient mss and versions. I do not blieve that W&H's methods...

I am, I suppose, a Westcott & Hort fan. and, bluntly, I don't see "plenty of wrong" in their Greek NT text. This even though their work predated a bundle of significant Bible discoveries (e.g. the discovery of the Oxyrhincus papyri, the discovery and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the...

A great many museum artifacts fall into the category of "borrowed and never returned". Even portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls seem to be in that category. Apparently to museum proprietors this sort of thing doesn't qualify as theft nor receiving stolen goods. I am willing to believe, or at...

A recent, and very interesting, book, Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, by Emma Smith (2021), now available as a Penguin paperback, has a chapter, "Religions of the book", which devotes a few pages to the Codex Sinaiticus. It's too lengthy for me to retype here, so I'll...

Simonides's "one poor work of my youth" has resisted attempts at detecting anachronisms much better than several of Simonides's fabrications of his maturity. His claim to have worked up the whole of the OT and NT within 8 months (or even 12 months) is simply implausible. No explanation for...

The Catalogue by Spyros P. Lambros was published in 1900. Lambros became Rector of the University of Athens. But it is possible (I speak as a retired librarian) that he was not initiated into the details and minutiae of bibliography and cataloging, so missing details in some of his catalogue...