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Does It Matter Who Wrote the Bible?
The Pastoral Implications of Pseudepigraphy and Anonymity in the New Testament
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Does It Matter Who Wrote the Bible?
The Pastoral Implications of Pseudepigraphy and Anonymity in the New Testament
About this book
Students in seminary or graduate theology programs learn that some books in the Bible are anonymous. Their professors will make the point that many Pauline letters have disputed authorship and may in fact not be written by Paul. Students will also learn about the practice of pseudonymity in the world of the Bible and how some Gospels or letters are written under a false name. Now for those who become pastors or church leaders, what are they to do with what they learn? Do they teach their congregants about these authorship questions? Do they ignore that part of their training as irrelevant to the task? Do they avoid teaching or reading publicly from disputed books? Do these questions not matter in the end because the church settled on the canon? This book aims to address these pastoral challenges. An international group of scholars from universities, seminaries, and graduate theology programs convened to discuss these matters at the Lanier Theological Library in May 2022. These essays represent how many faculty are wrestling with the pastoral implications of anonymity and pseudonymity in the New Testament.
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Table of contents
- Does It Matter Who Wrote the Bible?
- Foreword
- List of Contributors
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The Theory of New Testament Pseudepigraphy in Light of Second Temple Judaism1
- 2. Pseudepigraphy in Early Christianity and Today
- THE GOSPELS
- 3. Anonymous Appellations in the Fourth Gospel
- 4. Forgery and the Fourth Gospel
- 5. The Woman Taken in Adultery
- 6. Anonymous or Apostolic?
- PAUL
- 7. I Am Paul
- 8. Moving the Goalposts
- 9. “Let No One Deceive You in Any Way”
- 10. Pauline Pseudepigrapha as Lieux de Mémoire
- 11. From Hebrews to the Hauptbriefe
- 12. A Pauline Theology from Pseudonymous Letters?
- ACTS, HEBREWS, AND THE CATHOLIC LETTERS
- 13. Whose Acts?
- 14. The Mysterious Letter to the “Hebrews”
- 15. The God Who Speaks
- 16. Attested to Us by Those Who Heard Him
- 17. Unknown Author and Divine Author
- 18. Pseudepigraphy, Anonymity, and the Authority of the Catholic Epistles
- CONCLUSIONS
- 19. Bear with This Anonymous Exhortation
- 20. Unstable Canons and the Fingerprints of Forgery
- 21. Recycling Early Christian Canon Criteria