Showing posts with label Mount Athos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mount Athos. Show all posts

Friday, March 29, 2024

WM 303: The 900,000 Manuscripts of Mount Athos & the Failure of Textual Reconstruction

 



One modern scholar, Malka K. Simkovich, has recently suggested that there may be over 900,000 manuscripts at Mount Athos, Greece alone yet to be digitized and examined by scholars. Here are my thoughts on the insurmountable problems for those relying on a reconstruction method to "restore" the Biblical text.

JTR