Questions tagged [authorship]
Questions about the authorship of particular parts of the bible.
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Did Solomon write Ecclesiastes?
In addition to Proverbs there are other canonical texts that non-scholars tend to attribute to Solomon of more dubious origin.
What evidence is there that Ecclesiastes alleges to have been written by ...
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Were 1 John and John’s gospel written by the same person?
I’m interested in internal evidence based on the linguistic/stylistic and (if you like) thematic patterns of the two books. I am less interested for the purpose of this question in whether either was ...
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Did Paul write 2 Thessalonians?
Since the advent of critical scholarship, the authorship of all the biblical texts have come into question. After the dust settled, it is commonly accepted that, of the thirteen letters attributed to ...
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Identity of the "we" in 1 John 1:1?
The letter of 1 John begins in verse 1:
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we ...
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Why is the "Four Author Theory" of the Pentateuch so popular? [closed]
Deuteronomy 31:9
9 Then Moses wrote this Torah, and gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:...
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Is 2 Thessalonians 3:17 enough to reject Paul as the author of Hebrews?
Hebrews is arguably the deepest of all epistles in the new testament. Hence the writer would have had to be the most insightful among the apostles.
Even Peter acknowledged Paul's scriptural depth
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Revelation source criticism
In Revelation, the book can be divided into two or three parts with different genres:
Chapter 1 - Prologue
Chapter 2 to 3 - Epistles
Remainder - Apocalyptic Prophecy
Do any scholars posit that the ...
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Did Jesus ever write anything? [closed]
I mean we got writing by matthew, mark, luke, etc. Where is writing by Jesus? Anything survive?
Did Jesus ever write anything that survives?
I am aware of a tradition that king of Edessa want to be ...
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What is the basis for a late date for the Book of Daniel? [duplicate]
I had always been under the assumption that the Book of Daniel was written either during the Jewish exile in Babylon or in the years after it, mainly since that's the period the events in the book ...
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What is Isaiah 24-27, and when was it written?
The view that the book of Isaiah, as we have it, came from multiple authors has wide support across the spectrum of scholars. Most often, Isaiah is divided into at least three sections: proto-Isaiah (...
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Who wrote Lamentations?
As part of the Meta Call for questions related to the Five Scrolls.
Traditionally, Lamentations has been attributed to Jeremiah, the reason it follows Jeremiah in the Christian ordering of the Old ...
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How could Moses have written the first five books of the Bible?
Deuteronomy 34:5 says Moses died, but the book then continues for several more verses.
NASB, Deuteronomy 34:5 - So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the ...
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Would it matter if the ID of 'Auctor' was revealed and who are the potential candidates?
The author of Hebrews, being generally uncertain, sometimes goes by the moniker "Auctor". But who or what lies behind the mask? What clues do we have to work with that could tip us off to their ...
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Was the author of Acts a companion of Paul?
Reading through Acts, there are a number of passages describing the journeys of Paul where the author uses the first-person plural. For instance Acts 16:11-12 reads:
From Troas we put out to sea ...
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Do linguistic features of Ecclesiastes rule out Solomon as the author?
Franz Delitzsch is famously quoted as saying:
If the book of Koheleth were of old Solomonic origin, then there is no history of the Hebrew Language.
His argument seems to be that the Hebrew is ...
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