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If I have time later today, I can write up the authorship of the NT books as surveyed by Carrier in On the Historicity of Jesus -- there is a wealth of scholarship cited in his background chapters, especially about the Pauline and Johannine epistles. I found it very interesting as someone with only a lay knowledge of which books are generally considered to be genuine/contested/fraudulent, and where they fall in the timeline. (Carrier's review of extrabiblical source material is particularly exhaustive, but I guess that's a bit outside the scope of this thread.)
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Lot of appeal to authority/popularity there. If you've read it, I'd be interested in a critique.
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Alright, fair enough. As someone with no vested interest, and a generally historicist viewpoint going in, I'll mention that my mind was thoroughly changed by Carrier's work. Most of the interesting stuff was literature review anyway, such that unless he's straight-up lying or misrepresenting, it's going to be hard to successfully refute. And he does address the scholarly-consensus point directly, early in the text. This is not even to mention that Sheffield-Phoenix is a perfectly decent academic press in the relevant field, and the book passed peer review by these same scholars. But this obviously isn't the thread for this. mdemone fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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