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Jeffrey Riddle
"There are people who are experts on papyrology and who have examined the documents firsthand, and their judgements should be given proper weight."
Actually, the "consensus" of a 4th-century date was developed without any access to the manuscript sections, pushed obnoxiously by Tischendorf with wild attacks on scholars. By the time some visual, albeit not physical, access was available in 2009, with the Codex Sinaiticus Project, the scholarship was "deeply entrenched" and any substantial modification would be extremely awkward to the textual criticism crew, the libraries and the scholars with their dozen of papers and laurels and reputations.
So no one cared about the:
"phenomenally good condition" (Helen Shenton, British Library) of the parchment, the
lack of ink-acid reaction with the iron gall ink, or
the huge telling difference between the Leipzig 1844 and London 1859 sections, described skillfully in the two books and many videos by David W. Daniels, that point to the truthfulness of the 1862-63 accusation of deliberate colouring that only hit the 1859 pages.
Hands were waved, excuses were mumbled, and the long con is still going on.
And this is only scratching the surface of evidence!
Steven Avery
Dutchess County, NY USA