According to the prolific New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, “Some books, such as the Gospels… had been written anonymously, only later to be ascribed to certain authors who probably did not write them (apostles and friends of the apostles).” [1]Bart Ehrman, Jesus Interrupted (2011), pp. 101-102 Technically, Ehrman is right that the gospels are “anonymous”, but only in the sense that the authors didn’t identify themselves in the main body of text. Nowhere in the main body of text do the authors...
Published on May 17, 2023 00:57