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Who wrote the Gospels?

Sleeppy

Sleeppy

Fatalist. Christian. Pacifist.
Samaritan High Priest said:
And when he had gathered apostles, he delegated them to various countries. Among these, Peter was sent to Rome and Andrew to the Soudan, Matthew accompanying him. This Matthew wrote a Gospel; (this word is Greek, and signifies “good news”). This Matthew wrote his Gospel in the year 41 after the death of Jesus, and it is said that he wrote it in Judea. Thomas was sent to Babylon, and Philip to Kerwan, and Africa, and Paul to Eliya, and its neighborhood. This Paul wrote a number of epistles which the Christians have. And he at first was called Saul, and it is said that he was born in Tarsus, capital of Cilicia. It is said he belonged to the tribe of Benjamin, but more truly he belongs to the tribe of Judah. He wrote fourteen epistles. Before he wrote these he sent an epistle to Salonica in the year 52 after the slaying of Jesus, the son of Mary: the last was the second epistle to the people of Timothy in the fifty-sixth year after the slaying of Jesus. And Simon was sent to the country of Barbary. And the said Jesus had other disciples than these, among whom was Mark, who also wrote a gospel, and of whom it was said that he was a disciple of Peter. It is said that he wrote his Gospel at the dictation of peter to the people of Rome. It is said that he wrote his Gospel forty-eight years after the death of his master Peter. Among the others there was Luke, who was from the city of Anitoch and Sabius, practicing medicine; and it was said that he was originally a heathen. After he became a Christian it is said that he became a disciple of Paul. It was said that he wrote his Gospel in Boeotia, which is a state in Greece, and its king was Tabis Cade. Among the others was John, who was from Bethsaida, a town of Galilee. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome. He was in his youth a fisherman, and Jesus ordained him as an apostle. He also wrote a Gospel in the year 101 after the death of Jesus, but more correctly in the year 97 after the slaying of Jesus. Because he reached the age of 115. And it is said that he wrote a part of his Gospel in the island of Patmos, and part after his return from there, in Ephesus: and he continued at the writing of his Gospel from the year 64 to the year 97 after the slaying of Jesus……….
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http://shomron0.tripod.com/articles/themessianichope.pdf
http://www.thesamaritanupdate.com/
 
Copernicus

Copernicus

Industrial Strength Linguist
For a great introductory study on the subject, I recommend Bart Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). Ehrman gives some very interesting details about the history of the gospels, including information on who wrote them. As has already been pointed out, they were not written by the authors traditionally associated with them. During those times, there were many gospels, and the names were meant to give them a more authoritative appeal. Ehrman also looks very closely at the discrepancies across the four gospels and explains why he thinks the authors changed and embellished the contents of the stories. The authors wanted to make different theological points.
 
LegionOnomaMoi

LegionOnomaMoi

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Copernicus said:
For a great introductory study on the subject, I recommend Bart Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). Ehrman gives some very interesting details about the history of the gospels, including information on who wrote them. As has already been pointed out, they were not written by the authors traditionally associated with them. During those times, there were many gospels, and the names were meant to give them a more authoritative appeal. Ehrman also looks very closely at the discrepancies across the four gospels and explains why he thinks the authors changed and embellished the contents of the stories. The authors wanted to make different theological points.
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Ehrman's a good scholar. His contributions to textual criticism are particularly noteworthy (including his work to produce the current edition of Metzger's text, itself a noteworthy achievement without those works which were entirely his own).

The same isn't true of his popular works. For example:

LegionOnomaMoi said:
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Misquoting Jesus is a deliberately misleading book. For example, Ehrman spends a lot of time talking about copying errors, variations, changes, etc., but deliberately doesn't put this in context [e.g.,] "Scholars differ significantly in their estimates- some say there are 200,000 variants known, some say 300,000, some say 400,000 and more!" He follows this (p. 90) with the very misleading comment "There are more variants among are manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament."

However, in his...Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament Ehrman (writing more for other specialists rather than a wider and more easily deceived audience) puts this in context (p. 309): "There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the NT. As one might expect, however, these raw numbers are somewhat deceptive. For the vast majority of these textual differences are easily recognized as simple scribal mistakes...The single largest category of mistake is orthographic..."

...In the 4th edition of The Texts of the New Testament by Bruce Metzger and Bart Ehrman , we find: "the textual critic of the New Testament is embarrassed by the wealth of material..."
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Desert Snake

Veteran Member
Copernicus said:
For a great introductory study on the subject, I recommend Bart Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). Ehrman gives some very interesting details about the history of the gospels, including information on who wrote them. As has already been pointed out, they were not written by the authors traditionally associated with them. During those times, there were many gospels, and the names were meant to give them a more authoritative appeal. Ehrman also looks very closely at the discrepancies across the four gospels and explains why he thinks the authors changed and embellished the contents of the stories. The authors wanted to make different theological points.
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Thanks.
 
Gnostic Seeker

Gnostic Seeker

Spiritual
disciple said:
Who wrote the Gospels in the NT?
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Matthew is a later version of the Gospel of the Hebrews used by the Ebionites, traditionally Mark of Alexandria wrote Mark, and Luke the physician wrote Luke. John's anonymous, but my educated guess would be Ignatius or Polycarp. John is pretty gnostic.
 
Gnostic Seeker

Gnostic Seeker

Spiritual
Not that I assume Mark wrote Mark or Luke wrote Luke, just to add. That's just who they're attributed to. Mark did not write the current version of Mark, and Luke has signs of Marcionite influence, if you want my opinion. The point for me isn't WHO wrote them.
 
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