Derec

Hi,

I am looking for a good online source on New Testament (or whole Bible) authorship. I was looking in the II library but could not find anything.

UMoC

Intelligitimate

I'm not sure if I know of any comprehensive essay on the subject. The belief is pretty much just based on what some ancient Christians thought, and they seem to mostly be relying on Papias, which Eusebius himself thought was an idiot.

Vorkosigan

http://www.ntgateway.com/resource/

There are always useful resources at the NT Gateway, including several online introductions. You might also look into the books at EarlyChristianWritings which offers a formidable number of them.

Peter Kirby

Tooting my own horn, the Early Christian Writings "Information" sections would be more specifically titled "Authorship" sections, as that seems to be of greatest interest (for the public if not for academics).

Many of them need to be expanded, however. For example, my 1 Peter page used to have just a few paragraphs from Kummel but was greatly expanded recently (as prompted by someone's question in the Ebla Forum). Quite a few sections were done in haste.

best,
Peter Kirby

Derec

Hi people,

I know the story about the accepted scholarship on NT origins, at least in general terms. I was looking for a more comprehensive summary that I could refer a person I am debating with to. I will check the Early Christian Writings section. Thanks.

Thanks to everybody.

UMoC

Peter Kirby

I don't recall a book devoted to the subject exclusively since J. A. T. Robinson's Redating the New Testament. One scholar who wrote a review of that was in the process of writing his own book, but unfortunately passed away. Yet I saw mention on his webspace that his son or someone else will attempt to publish and augment what remains. So, I don't know of any source that will lay it all out on a platter along with the relevant evidence (which is usually interpreted variously as there's no time stamp like "I wrote this in the sixth month of the second year of Nero"). Best bet is to pick out which NT books you want to learn about and then read the "Introduction" sections of several hefty commentaries at a library with a good bible/theology section.

best,
Peter Kirby

Chris Weimer

read "The Bible Unearthed" by Finkelstein and Silberman

I think I've only found one mistake, the "House of David" inscription on a stele, but even that is still hypothetical...

Speedkill

That doesn't cover the NT, though.

Peter Kirby

I have read The Bible Unearthed and can recommend it, but it wouldn't answer the title question of this thread. Finkelstein and Silberman discuss some of the archaeology, but this would be a quite incomplete way of looking at the authorship of the Pentateuch and some of the "historical books" and wouldn't help at all with the rest of the Hebrew Bible. For that one could find information in "introductions to the OT" and in the Introduction sections of commentaries on individual books.

If I could suggest a single volume to own concerning the Hebrew Bible, one which had critical notes and introductions, along with the full text in a Jewish-made translation I would say The Jewish Study Bible, which I got recently. That would help, along with something such as Reading the Old Testament by Lawrence Boadt (or a dry as dust but highly useful reference-type of "Introduction," what Germans call Einleitung, such as J. Alberto Soggin's Introduction to the Old Testament).

(edited to add for speedkill: for the NT, I have an annotated list here)

best,
Peter Kirby

Chris Weimer

sorry, I wasn't thinking when I post. missed the OP -