RE: Christians, would you buy this NT?
March 12, 2015 at 10:43 am
(March 12, 2015 at 9:33 am)Aractus Wrote: On what basis do you think that Jude is a forgery?
Probably Jude was a forgery, but I've noticed a common theme in the arguments for forgeries of epistles - the scholars claim that the earliest Christians (Peter, John, Jude, James) were not educated and did not know Greek. There is evidence that Galilee was Hellenized and some argue that Jesus was a Cynic. Maybe the followers of Jesus were a very educated and Hellenized group who could have written some of these epistles?
Quote:Kummel presents the reasons that most scholars suspect Jude to be a pseudepigraph (Introduction to the New Testament, pp. 428):
Quote:...and the cultivated Greek language as well as the citations from a Greek translation of the Enoch Apocalypse do not well suit a Galilean.
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