Update: Dan McClellan responded Friday in a twenty-minute video, “Some thoughts on the Wes Huff situation.” He said he had held off commenting since Sunday after learning Huff’s family was dealing with a child’s medical emergency. He took apart the defenses of Huff’s apology — the “rough draft” claim above all — and disclosed that he has submitted a formal complaint to Huff’s institution, which can determine whether the papers were ever submitted for credit.

On Sunday, November 8, biblical scholar Dan McClellan published a video with a plain question for a title: “Did Wes Huff commit plagiarism?” His answer, laid out document by document for nearly an hour, was that Huff’s graduate coursework papers copied other scholars’ work — including, in places, the other scholars’ own mistakes.