First witness: Friedrich Max MΓΌller, called Simonides "The famous forger of MSS" in his letter to Professor Bernays
(The life and letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max MΓΌller, Pages 232-233)
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MΓΌller is a credible witness to Simonides being a forger of Sinaiticus as MΓΌller's Autobiography's Preface states Muller studied language & etymology, both which would enable him to see through a forgery"..from his earliest student days his leanings were philosophical and religious rather than classical;..the study of Herbert's philsophy encouraged him in the work in which he was engaged...the Science of Language and Etymology; how his desire to know something special, that no other philosopher would know, led him to explore the virgin fields of Oriental literature and religions. With this motive he began the study of Arabic, Persian, and finally Sanskrit,"
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