RE: The Anonymous Gospel Manuscripts
February 1, 2016 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 3:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 1, 2016 at 3:28 pm)athrock Wrote: I'm not speaking of the entire NT but of the individual books or gospels known as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And if there were copies of these books that did not say, "The Gospel According to Matthew" or "The Gospel of Mark", then where are they? Shouldn't there be lots of manuscript copies of the gospels that don't have a name associated with them? If so, where are they?Why would a copy of the book of Matthew be something other than copy of the book of Matthew? Are you asking where the incomplete manuscript copies are?
Quote:Anyone who denies that the gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The theory is that these books were written much later and that we really don't or can't know who wrote them. Questionable authorship and late dating are the breeding ground for all sorts of fanciful ideas held by skeptics who simply can't bring themselves to admit that the gospels are more reliable than they care to admit.So no one, a group of made up people in your head to advance a position you feel competent in knocking down? Do you need me to participate?
Quote:Perhaps, but whether you do so correctly or not is a matter for careful study. The kind of study that suggests that in the case of the gospels, the traditional attribution of authorship is probably correct.Probable by reference to what...that people tell stories?
Quote:If you believe that the gospels were published anonymously or by authors other than Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, please present any physical evidence you may have.
And since I believe that logical arguments in favor of God's existence ARE evidence, I'll entertain logical arguments against the traditional authorship, as well.
Fair is fair, after all.
Except that I -don't- believe that the gospels of the NT were published -as- anonymous stories, which is different than being published anonymously. The first time I'd consider them as having been published -at all- they came packaged with attributions and we -still- don't know exactly who published them. Since when are we discussing a fucking publisher in the first place? What happened to their authorship? Again I'm fairly certain that these attributions were a significant portion of the metrics upon which the body of the NT was chosen.
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