Talk:Morton Smith

message: I should have known: I told other people that Wikipedia was a waste of time, since all of your work in writing an article could be deleted by a total stranger overnight -- or, even worse, that your own words might be mangled into saying the opposite of what you meant.  So along comes Richard Arthur Norton, and deletes the entire article, without a word of comment (on this page).
I don't think I'll be back. JaafarAbuTarab 15:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I Hate Wikipedia 

message: I was the only magician to correspond with Morton Smith. He had terrible handwriting. During our correspondence I asked Smith a number of classical historical questions that had been devised by renown historical researchers. I expected Smith to be familar with them. They went completely over his head and upset him. (Maybe it was my fault because I failed to identify the authors of these questions). Many times I had to explain later exactly what was meant. He was very understanding, kind, and informative. I have studied deception for about 40 years. I do not mean this in a derogitory way, but I do not think Smith was that playful or had enough creativity to be a forgerer as has been charged by Stephen Carlson and possibly others. I think these charges are false and are the product of a wild imagination,apophenia. Kazuba (talk) 21:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Forgery

message: More about Smith's personal life, please.  Was he a homosexual, married?  Was a he a Jew, a Christian, what denomination? What else did he publish?  Did he regard his career as successful?  What other scholars did he teach or influence? 86.152.9.150 (talk) 09:44, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out the topic "Secret Gospel of Mark", under the section "Forgery?", the sixth paragraph.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.27.30.63 (talk) 20:16, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life 

message: The biography section currently says:
 "He was said to have devoted fifteen years of his life to just studying his finding of the Secret Gospel.[3]"
He "was said" by whom? Himself? This could arguably be written as "He was said to have devoted fifteen years to protecting his own forgery from detection.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CCD8:AB80:B8C9:4544:8181:959E (talk) 01:30, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography ... hearsay on Smith's dedication vs time to protect forgery 

message: Given that the Mar Saba letter has its own page perhaps the section here could be shortened. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:25, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplication

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