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  • From: "Professor L.W. Hurtado" <hurtadol AT div.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Secret Mark
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:27:56 +000


Wieland Willker writes:
> Dear Larry,
> your points are all well and good and I can accept them except the first.
> By complaining that the manuscript has never been independently analysed
> you are accusing yourself. This is your job. Or the job of the
> theological/papyrological science. You (I mean you all) haven't done
> anything in the last 30 years. I can't understand that. M. Smith maybe was
> a weird person and one can reject his strange theories, but he has
> discovered something interesting. This manuscript must be analysed to
> prove its genuineness. Nobody has done this in 30 years, so I think
> something is wrong. Let's hope C. Hedrick comes up with something.

Well, yes, in a way. There have been several attempts to verify the
existence of the alleged ms, and none of them have been
successful. *My* complaint is not that this hasn't been attempted,
nor even that it hasn't been successful. My complaint and
*caution* has to do with historical method: We can't really
entertain seriously various assertions about Secret Mark (even by
illustrious scholars) which are ventured *without* any
acknowlegement that they are not scientifically serious *to the
degree that they ignore the state of our evidential basis*.

L. W. Hurtado
University of Edinburgh,
New College
Mound Place
Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2LX
Phone: 0131-650-8920
Fax: 0131-650-6579
E-mail: L.Hurtado AT ed.ac.uk




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