Juckel's study

[yuku]

It's furthest from the Greek my foot! It's stuck so far up the western Bezan Greek and Latin text it can't see any daylight.....what planet are you living on?

Why do you suppose Old Scratch was scratched off, anyway? Ever gave it any thought? Exactly what about St. Thecla's (!) story was so important that someone would scratch off the Holy Gospels to write her story over them?

Doesn't that say ANYTHING to you?

The fact that SyS is a palimpsest is immaterial to any serious textual scholar. Can you find any published textual scholar who said that because some ancient MS is a palimpsest it should be ignored?

Why SyS was overwritten in A.D. 778? Why should I care? But the answer should be obvious, because whoever had overwritten it, didn't like the old text. But just because someone in 778 didn't like the old text, this doesn't mean that I also shouldn't like it.

Sorry, Akhi Paul, but I find this type of a discussion very strange, and not very productive. Any serious biblical scholar will laugh at me if I say that just because some ancient MS is a palimpsest it should be ignored...

Yours,

Yuri.