Steven Avery
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There are also numerous accurate components of the Simonides account that make no sense as lies.
Here are a few:
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Simonides, Kallinikos and Benedict confirmed as working with mss. at Mt.Athos c. 1840 - perfecto.
(Some of the confirmation came from the 1895-1900 Athos library publication of Spyridon Lambrou.)
Benedict confirmed as a theological and Bible scholar at Mount Athos, modern historians helpful.
Simonides connected with the Zosima brothers, one LXX Bible source.
Numerous named individuals involved from Athos to Constantinople to Antigonus to Sinai
Connection of Simonides with Constantius confirmed.
Explaining superbly the 1844 theft by Tischendorf, which is clearer today.
Knowledge of Tischendorf’s bumbling Greek, which he does mention later in his writing.
The 1856 Greek Hermas that preceded the Sinaiticus discovery and is a sister ms.
(Accused by Tischendorf of being a medieval retro-version from Latin, and then retracted awkwardly by Tischendorf when he saw that would destroy the Sinaiticus Hermas as ancient.)
Numerous textual and correction manuscripts that fit with the late Sinaiticus.
The called shot of the manuscript colouring.
Easily verified, but only publicly available after the 2009 CSP.
The phenomenally good condition of the ms., the lack of acid-ink reaction.
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Here are a few:
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Simonides, Kallinikos and Benedict confirmed as working with mss. at Mt.Athos c. 1840 - perfecto.
(Some of the confirmation came from the 1895-1900 Athos library publication of Spyridon Lambrou.)
Benedict confirmed as a theological and Bible scholar at Mount Athos, modern historians helpful.
Simonides connected with the Zosima brothers, one LXX Bible source.
Numerous named individuals involved from Athos to Constantinople to Antigonus to Sinai
Connection of Simonides with Constantius confirmed.
Explaining superbly the 1844 theft by Tischendorf, which is clearer today.
Knowledge of Tischendorf’s bumbling Greek, which he does mention later in his writing.
The 1856 Greek Hermas that preceded the Sinaiticus discovery and is a sister ms.
(Accused by Tischendorf of being a medieval retro-version from Latin, and then retracted awkwardly by Tischendorf when he saw that would destroy the Sinaiticus Hermas as ancient.)
Numerous textual and correction manuscripts that fit with the late Sinaiticus.
The called shot of the manuscript colouring.
Easily verified, but only publicly available after the 2009 CSP.
The phenomenally good condition of the ms., the lack of acid-ink reaction.
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