Questions tagged [authorship]
Questions about the authorship of particular parts of the bible.
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Is Romans 3:24-26 original to Paul?
Romans 3:23-26 (NA28, ESV):
πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
δικαιούμενοι δωρεὰν τῇ αὐτοῦ χάριτι διὰ τῆς ...
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What does the vocabulary of 2 Peter indicate about its authorship?
The opening verse of 2 Peter states that the book was written by “Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ" (ESV). By this we understand the claim to be Simon Bar-Jonah (Matt 16:17), a ...
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What evidence suggests that Paul was not the author of Titus?
I am aware that only a minority of critical scholars recognize Paul as the author of Titus. What I am not sure of is why. Does "the author" say something in the letter that sounds "non-Pauline"? Does ...
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Does the Gospel of Marcion attest to Luke's authorship of the Gospel of Luke?
The Gospel of Marcion is said to be evidence that the Gospel of Luke was in fact written by Luke:
Tradition unanimously affirms this author to be Luke. This is attested
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Why is the fact that the Muratorian Fragment included Luke in its canon considered an external evidence for Luke's authorship?
The Muratorian Fragment is said to be evidence that the Gospel of Luke was in fact written by him:
Tradition unanimously affirms this author to be Luke. This is attested
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Why Luke's gospel was originally anonymous?
According to an answer here
What are the evidences that Luke is written after/before the fall of Jerusalem?
Luke's gospel was originally anonymous and latter assigned to Luke, a fellow travelers of ...
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Internal Evidence of Authorship of the Fourth Gospel
By the "fourth gospel," I mean the gospel commonly attributed to an "apostle John."
However, is there actually an internal evidence that someone named John wrote the fourth gospel, as is commonly ...
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Is Malachi a pseudonym?
The ESV has a note on Malachi 1:1:
The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.1
1:1 Malachi means my messenger
Malachi's Wikipedia entry shows that this has caused interpreters to ...
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Impact of order of letters to the Thessalonians
I was surprised recently to learn that 1st and 2nd Thessalonians appear in that order because of their relative size to one another rather than necessarily the order in which they were written. That ...
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How can the Pastoral Epistles not be Pauline?
According to my own reading and Wikipedia:
On the basis of their language, content, and other factors, the Pastoral Epistles are today widely regarded as not having been written by the Apostle Paul,...
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Does the Shibboleth story help us date the book of Judges?
This story has always fascinated me:
Judges 12:4-6 (ESV)
4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are ...
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How did the gospels get their names? [closed]
Unlike the epistles, which have the author's name at the beginning, the gospels do not say who wrote them. How did the names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John get attached to them, and how certain can we ...
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