corkvm.blogg.se - Greek New Testament by Anonymous

distributed to a broad audience) in a way that did not have the name attached to the book.

A document is anonymous if it was first published (i.e.

In other words, it is reasonable to assume that the texts were probably written by their stated authors, for roughly the same reason that we assume that the modern-day books on your shelf were probably written by their stated authors.Ī better set of definitions is as follows: There is no evidence that an earlier form of the Gospels ever circulated which did not contain the author name. "The Gospel of Mark") which directly proceeds the text itself.

I have checked the earliest complete manuscript of the New Testament with my own eyes (via an online scan) and I find that the authors names are clearly stated on the manuscript itself, in a header (e.g.

We're more likely to find the author's name on the spine or title page than in Chapter One.Īccording to this apologetics website, author names in the first century were typically written on a tag which was attached to the outside of the scroll, and possibly also in the title at the beginning or end of the document. It's certainly not the primary method we use today. The author may choose to begin his book by introducing himself by name to the reader (especially if there is a preface), but this is not the only way that an authorial name can be attached to a book. It is customary, both in ancient and modern times, for the authorship of a work to be stated, not in the main body of the text, but in the byline written in the title header, or else on the outside of the book. Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsĬlearly this criterion is a silly one.If we use this criterion, then as far as I can tell from briefly sampling my own library and prior reading, the works attributed to these authors also seem to be anonymous:

This is based on the observation that the authorship is never explicitly mentioned in the main body of the texts of the Gospels attributed to Sts. A common criticism of the Gospel accounts is that they are of low historical value because they are anonymous.