A Stylometric Analysis of the Mar Saba Letter Attributed to Clement of Alexandria.
Since the publication of Clement's letter to Theodore, discovered by Morton Smith at Mar Saba, there has been a great deal of controversy surrounding its authenticity. The main aim of the present paper is to weigh the linguistic evidence for and against Clementine authorship of the letter, also chec...
| Publicado en: | Vigiliae Christianae Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 265 - 289 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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