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On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Bart Ehrman wrote:

> despite my
> propensity to think he forged it, have to say that his analysis is
> *extremely* compelling -- the sort of thing that loses almost everything
> in translation.  If he did forge this thing, it's one the most amazing
> feats of scholarship in the 20th century; and he would have done so at a
> remarkably young age.)

This sounds much like the matter of the Brazilian Paraiba inscription 
which Cyrus Gordon pronounced authentic (it recounts some Phoenecians 
blown off course while attempting to circumnavigate Africa, ending up 
in what is now Brazil).  Gordon's point there was that there were certain 
grammatical peculiarities in the inscription (found in 1898) which were 
not known within northwest Semitic until the Ugaritic materials had been 
discovered.  Nevertheless, most scholars still considered the Paraiba 
inscription to be a forgery, which seems peculiar.

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Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.           Assoc. Prof./Greek and New Testament
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary     Wake Forest, North Carolina
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