Tischendorf knew all about the controversy.
And he ducked the planned 1863 trip, disappointing Scrivener and others.
If the colours and staining did not support what was written by Simonides and Kallinikos, he would simply say:
"Simonides is just making up nonsense! Look, we can compare the pages from 1844 and 1859 and you will see that his accusation of colouring is totally false, they look the same. Nothing was coloured to make it look older."
When the controversy was died down in 1865, and Simonides was no longer in London, Tischendorf did show up in London for some brief presentations. However, he only had Leipzig pages. Even though they are in phenomenally good condition as young parchment, at least there were not the wacky anomalies and coulor of the St. Petersburg pages. So he could hand-wave.
And he ducked the planned 1863 trip, disappointing Scrivener and others.
If the colours and staining did not support what was written by Simonides and Kallinikos, he would simply say:
"Simonides is just making up nonsense! Look, we can compare the pages from 1844 and 1859 and you will see that his accusation of colouring is totally false, they look the same. Nothing was coloured to make it look older."
When the controversy was died down in 1865, and Simonides was no longer in London, Tischendorf did show up in London for some brief presentations. However, he only had Leipzig pages. Even though they are in phenomenally good condition as young parchment, at least there were not the wacky anomalies and coulor of the St. Petersburg pages. So he could hand-wave.
Statistics: Posted by Steven Avery — Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:44 pm