RE: The Anonymous Gospel Manuscripts
February 1, 2016 at 1:46 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 1:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 1, 2016 at 12:30 pm)athrock Wrote: What I'm asking is this: If the gospels were circulated anonymously for many years before being attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, were are the copies of the manuscripts which do not have their names associated with them?I'm not sure what it is you're asking? By "the gospels" I have to assume you mean the NT proper. Who thinks that the NT proper was circulated anonymously before attribution to the authors? I'm certain that attribution was a very important component of determining the provenance of various stories circulating along the periphery of the christ narrative. In determining what would be gospel and what would be apocrypha.
Quote:And how did the Church manage to label each and every single copy of these anonymous gospels without any record of this project being mentioned in the writings of the Early Church Fathers?Again I have to ask you who thinks that they did?
Quote:So, dear atheist, if you want to claim that we don't know who wrote the gospels, where is YOUR evidence of anonymity?Attribution does not provide any reasonable certainty of the authors identity. It provides a working concept to discuss the work apart from the identity of it's author. We attribute tales to Aesop.
There is no need to provide evidence that I cannot say with certainty who the authors of the gospels where....this is precisely the problem..if I had some evidence I could tell you. I'll I have are the things a story says about itself.........
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