Stephan Huller has published an interview of Agamemnon Tselikas, the other Greek handwriting expert hired by Biblical Archaeology Review last year. The interview was conducted by Charles W. Hedrick a few months ago, and deals with the travels of Morton Smith and the lost manuscript of Clement's letter to Theodore.
Could Smith have been a secret agent of the Western powers as well as an historian and manuscript hunter during the 40s and 50s? What does Tselikas' report on the handwriting, due to be published in BAR soon, reveal? These questions and many more will undoubtedly be discussed in various blogs soon after the Holiday season.
Friday, December 24, 2010
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Coming this Christmas to an archaeology journal near you: Morton Smith as The Spy Who Forged Me.
ReplyDeleteA gripping tale of international espionage and patristic scholarship.
It is amazing though to think how similar Tselikas's portrait of Smith resembles the narrative in the Hunter novel. Maybe the problem isn't that Smith imitated the novel but that human beings have a tendency to glamorize history. It might be a natural tendency of the brain when it recalls historical information.
ReplyDeleteWhere are you Timo? Your fans are experiencing Salainen evankelista withdrawal.
ReplyDeleteYou mean I should already drop out of my planned schedule of doing everything that is not the least bit relevant to the study of Clement's letter? Pray tell, have I already received a grant to finance such a drastic change to my daily tasks? Oh, but didn't Finnish Cultural Foundation just grant me one? Well, they did and from December 2011 onwards all is well in the kingdom.
ReplyDeleteSo, see ya in... nine months, I guess?
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(Maybe a bit earlier; in reality I'm just feeling lazy and need to snap myself out of it.)
Must be the winter in Finland.
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