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Dates that relate directly to the Hermas and Barnabas timeline.
Hermas and Barnabas timeline
1513 - Stapulensis publishes Latin Hermas
1843 - date of Simonides Greek Barnabas (characterized as a 'Sinaitic' Barnabas in the early church father editions)
http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/126636/
1843 - date of review/extract from Simonides Barnabas in the Star of the East of Smyrna
1845 - Uspensky sees Barnabas and Hermas in Sinai, writes consistent with both being full books -
http://books.google.com/books?id=hIlCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225
1855 - Simonides edition published by Anger & Dindorf, with their notes it gets a publication date of 1856
Hermae pastor: Graece primum ediderunt et interpretationem veterum latinam
Anger - Dindorf (original Simoindes edition)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QEVMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5
Hathi Trust
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008408813
1856 - Hermas Greek pages (6?) seized from Simonides in forgery (Uranios) brouhaha, theorized that Simonides planned a palimpsest
1856 - Tischendorf-Lipsiensis edition of Simonides Hermas
Hermas Pastor Graece ex fragmentis Lipsiensibus instituta quaestione de vero Graeci textus Lipsiensis font
https://books.google.com/books/about/Hermae_Pastor.html?id=9I4wAQAAMAAJ
1857 - Tischendorf accuses Simonides Hermas of being a "medieval retranslation"
1859 - Tischendorf claims to have never seen Uspensky references
1859 - before first retraction - letters
"His views on Hermas were wrong, but in one thing he was right : the Athos text is not only much inferior than the Sinai one, but is also certainly corrupted from the Latin"
1860 - Tischendorf on Simonides Hermas (first retraction) - https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ac4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA45
1862 - Tischendorf publishes Hermas from Sinaiticus with many similar features
1862 - Simonides 1843 Barnabas from Smyrna and Star of the East excerpts/review (probable date of Athenaeum 1876 reference)
1863 - Tischendorf retracts his accusations against the Simonides Hermas
1864 - Simonides Periplus of Hannon list of publications includes 1843 Barnabas -
http://books.google.com/books?id=GYABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR11
1864 - James Donaldson linguistic questioning of Sinaiticus Barnabas and Hermas antiquity
p 306-311 here.
https://books.google.com/books?id=tMlDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA308
1866 - Westcott - "Dr Donaldson's arguments (I. p. 399) prove too much, for Cod. Sinait. dates from a period within 'the first five centuries of the Christian era."
1874 - James Donaldson marshals more evidence against Barnabas antiquity
http://books.google.com/books?id=_LwOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA384
"either a very corrupt MS. of Barnabas, or a translation based on the Latin"
1874 - James Donaldson notes the Barnabas of Simonides.
1876-01 - German editors note the reference of the Barnabas of Simoindes and say they are "puzzled"
1876 - Athenaeum, in review of Patrum Apostolicorum Opera ( https://books.google.com/books?id=ReRCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA54 ) and in response to 1874 Donaldson notation, says of Simonides Barnabas:
1876-05 - German publication of Gebhardt and Harnack uses Athenaeum explanation https://books.google.com/books?id=7IwYgNse6H4C&pg=RA1-PR23
1878 - German Barnabas has same explanation
https://books.google.com/books?id=88yvav5Uw-4C&pg=PR23
(The last points are countered by the research of Chris Pinto showing the actual review publication that was said not to exist, this is an area that could use linguistic attention, we do have some translation.)
1887 - Ante-Nicene Fathers edition - "Simonides smyrna, 1843, [Sinait. Text.]"
https://books.google.com/books?id=YIksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16
1888 - Spyridon Lampros sort of unravels Hermas issues
A Collation of the Athos Codex of the Shepherd of Hermas
https://books.google.com/books?id=jxM7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR7
1895 and 1900 - Lambrou catalog of Mt. Athos confirms Kallinikos and Simonides,
1901 -Grenfell and Hunt point out that Athous is closer to papyri than original Sinaiticus
Fragments of the Shepherd of Hermas (1901)
https://archive.org/stream/amherstpapyribei02grenuoft...
"The papyrus tends to agree with the Athous and the corrector of the Sinaiticus as against the first hand....' (p. 195).
1903 - Grenfell and Hunt - Greek fragments of Hermas from Oxyrhynchus Papyri -
1907 - Lake, Kirsopp - Facsimiles of the Athos Fragrments of the Shepherd of Hermas, Oxford 1907
1907 - Literary Forgeries by James Anson Ferrer uses Lambrou catalog to show more "coincidences" that support Simonides efforts on Sinaiticus.
1938 - "The text of the Codex Athous as printed by Lake1 has been used in this conjectural restoration, a text from which the Sinaiticus varies in small details but apparently not in substance"
Facsimiles of the Athos Fragments of the Shepherd of Hermas, Oxford, 1907
Skeat & Milne, Scribes & Correctors, 1938 p. 16
1951 - Musurillo places papyri tables, asks for newer and different type of Critical edition.
The need of a new edition of Hermas. In Theological Studies. Oxford.
http://cdn.theologicalstudies.net/12/12.3/12.3.6.pdf
2014 - Star of the East confirmed as authentic publication, full section available with review, Chris Pinto research
2018 - David W. Daniels book presents Hermas info
"In Chapter 17 I already told about the Shepherd of Hermas, which very largely matched the copy of Hermas that Simonides published, and that Tischendorf himself edited, in 1856.
========================================
James Donaldson (1831-1915)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Donaldson_(classical_scholar)
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Earlier version
Hermas Summary
1856 - Simonides publishes Hermas
1857 - Tischendorf accuses this of being a "medieval retranslation"
1859 - Simonides begins to privately claim Sinaiticus involvement in productin
1861 - Simonides begins to publicly claim Sinaiticus involvement in production
1862 - Tischendorf publishes Hermas from Sinaiticus with many similar features
1860-1863 - Tischendorf retracts his accusations against the Simonides Hermas,
Dates that relate directly to the Hermas and Barnabas timeline.
Hermas and Barnabas timeline
1513 - Stapulensis publishes Latin Hermas
1843 - date of Simonides Greek Barnabas (characterized as a 'Sinaitic' Barnabas in the early church father editions)
http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/126636/
1843 - date of review/extract from Simonides Barnabas in the Star of the East of Smyrna
1845 - Uspensky sees Barnabas and Hermas in Sinai, writes consistent with both being full books -
http://books.google.com/books?id=hIlCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225
1855 - Simonides edition published by Anger & Dindorf, with their notes it gets a publication date of 1856
Hermae pastor: Graece primum ediderunt et interpretationem veterum latinam
Anger - Dindorf (original Simoindes edition)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QEVMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5
Hathi Trust
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008408813
1856 - Hermas Greek pages (6?) seized from Simonides in forgery (Uranios) brouhaha, theorized that Simonides planned a palimpsest
1856 - Tischendorf-Lipsiensis edition of Simonides Hermas
Hermas Pastor Graece ex fragmentis Lipsiensibus instituta quaestione de vero Graeci textus Lipsiensis font
https://books.google.com/books/about/Hermae_Pastor.html?id=9I4wAQAAMAAJ
1857 - Tischendorf accuses Simonides Hermas of being a "medieval retranslation"
1859 - Tischendorf claims to have never seen Uspensky references
1859 - before first retraction - letters
"His views on Hermas were wrong, but in one thing he was right : the Athos text is not only much inferior than the Sinai one, but is also certainly corrupted from the Latin"
1860 - Tischendorf on Simonides Hermas (first retraction) - https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ac4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA45
1862 - Tischendorf publishes Hermas from Sinaiticus with many similar features
1862 - Simonides 1843 Barnabas from Smyrna and Star of the East excerpts/review (probable date of Athenaeum 1876 reference)
1863 - Tischendorf retracts his accusations against the Simonides Hermas
1864 - Simonides Periplus of Hannon list of publications includes 1843 Barnabas -
http://books.google.com/books?id=GYABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR11
1864 - James Donaldson linguistic questioning of Sinaiticus Barnabas and Hermas antiquity
p 306-311 here.
https://books.google.com/books?id=tMlDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA308
"almost all of the arguments that were adduced against the Athos manuscript are adducible against the Sinaitic"... "against the genuineness of the newly discovered text"
1866 - Westcott - "Dr Donaldson's arguments (I. p. 399) prove too much, for Cod. Sinait. dates from a period within 'the first five centuries of the Christian era."
1874 - James Donaldson marshals more evidence against Barnabas antiquity
http://books.google.com/books?id=_LwOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA384
"either a very corrupt MS. of Barnabas, or a translation based on the Latin"
1874 - James Donaldson notes the Barnabas of Simonides.
1876-01 - German editors note the reference of the Barnabas of Simoindes and say they are "puzzled"
1876 - Athenaeum, in review of Patrum Apostolicorum Opera ( https://books.google.com/books?id=ReRCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA54 ) and in response to 1874 Donaldson notation, says of Simonides Barnabas:
"Simonides ... went to the trouble of printing at his own expense an edition of the entire Epistle of Barnabas, for the very purpose of putting the date 1843 upon it. ... Simonides had taken the trouble to fabricate his newspaper [Star of the East] as well as the date of his edition"
1876-05 - German publication of Gebhardt and Harnack uses Athenaeum explanation https://books.google.com/books?id=7IwYgNse6H4C&pg=RA1-PR23
1878 - German Barnabas has same explanation
https://books.google.com/books?id=88yvav5Uw-4C&pg=PR23
(The last points are countered by the research of Chris Pinto showing the actual review publication that was said not to exist, this is an area that could use linguistic attention, we do have some translation.)
1887 - Ante-Nicene Fathers edition - "Simonides smyrna, 1843, [Sinait. Text.]"
https://books.google.com/books?id=YIksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16
1888 - Spyridon Lampros sort of unravels Hermas issues
A Collation of the Athos Codex of the Shepherd of Hermas
https://books.google.com/books?id=jxM7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR7
1895 and 1900 - Lambrou catalog of Mt. Athos confirms Kallinikos and Simonides,
1901 -Grenfell and Hunt point out that Athous is closer to papyri than original Sinaiticus
Fragments of the Shepherd of Hermas (1901)
https://archive.org/stream/amherstpapyribei02grenuoft...
"The papyrus tends to agree with the Athous and the corrector of the Sinaiticus as against the first hand....' (p. 195).
1903 - Grenfell and Hunt - Greek fragments of Hermas from Oxyrhynchus Papyri -
1907 - Lake, Kirsopp - Facsimiles of the Athos Fragrments of the Shepherd of Hermas, Oxford 1907
1907 - Literary Forgeries by James Anson Ferrer uses Lambrou catalog to show more "coincidences" that support Simonides efforts on Sinaiticus.
1938 - "The text of the Codex Athous as printed by Lake1 has been used in this conjectural restoration, a text from which the Sinaiticus varies in small details but apparently not in substance"
Facsimiles of the Athos Fragments of the Shepherd of Hermas, Oxford, 1907
Skeat & Milne, Scribes & Correctors, 1938 p. 16
1951 - Musurillo places papyri tables, asks for newer and different type of Critical edition.
The need of a new edition of Hermas. In Theological Studies. Oxford.
http://cdn.theologicalstudies.net/12/12.3/12.3.6.pdf
2014 - Star of the East confirmed as authentic publication, full section available with review, Chris Pinto research
2018 - David W. Daniels book presents Hermas info
"In Chapter 17 I already told about the Shepherd of Hermas, which very largely matched the copy of Hermas that Simonides published, and that Tischendorf himself edited, in 1856.
========================================
James Donaldson (1831-1915)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Donaldson_(classical_scholar)
========================================
Earlier version
Hermas Summary
1856 - Simonides publishes Hermas
1857 - Tischendorf accuses this of being a "medieval retranslation"
1859 - Simonides begins to privately claim Sinaiticus involvement in productin
1861 - Simonides begins to publicly claim Sinaiticus involvement in production
1862 - Tischendorf publishes Hermas from Sinaiticus with many similar features
1860-1863 - Tischendorf retracts his accusations against the Simonides Hermas,
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