Millard, A. R.. Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus. NYU Press, 56. o. (2000). ISBN 0-8147-5637-9 „C.P. Thiede drew on papyrology, statistics and forensic microscopy to try to prove O'Callaghan's case, yet without convincing the majority of other leading specialists.”
McCready, Wayne O..szerk.: Arnal: The Historical Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Whose Historical Jesus?. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 193. o. (1997). ISBN 0-88920-295-8. "On the whole, O'Callaghan's thesis has met with scholarly skepticism since the fragments are extremely small, almost illegible, and his strongest case does not agree with known versions of Mark."