Does It matter who wrote the Bible? : the pastoral Implications of pseudonymity and anonymity in the New Testament / David B. Capes, editor ; foreword by E. R. Richards.
| Other author | Capes, David B., editor. |
| Other author | Richards, E. Randolph (Ernest Randolph), writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Eugene, OR : Pickwick, [2025] |
| Description | xiv, 523 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / E. R. Richards -- List of contributors. -- [I.] Introduction. -- 1. The theory of New Testament pseudepigraphy in light of Second Temple Judaism / Daniel M. Gurtner -- 2. Pseudepigraphy in early Christianity and today / Lee Martin McDonald -- [II.] The Gospels. -- 3. Anonymous appellations in the Fourth Gospel : confirming the non-identity of the Beloved Disciple AND the Mother of Jesus? / Paul N. Anderson -- 4. Forgery and the Fourth Gospel : implications of pseudepigraphy and authority in the Johannine corpus / Cory M. Marsh -- 5. The woman taken in adultery : a pastoral/congregational quandary / Maurice A. Robinson -- 6. Anonymous or apostolic? : receiving the Gospels as apostolic testimony to Jesus / Murray J. Smith -- 7. I am Paul : audience interaction with authorial self-identification in the later Pauline Epistles / Christopher A. Porter -- 8. Moving the goalposts : the implications of disputed Pauline authorship on pastoral ministry / Steven E. Runge -- 9. "Let no one deceive you in any way" : 2 Thessalonians in church and academy / Sydney Tooth -- 10. Pauline pseudepigrapha as lieux de m̌moire : using and applying pseudepigraphic texts in the church / Michael Scott Robertson -- 11. From Hebrews to the Hauptbriefe : how have "authenticity" and "anonymity" affected the Church's reception of Paul since the Reformation? / Gregory E. Lamb -- 12. A Pauline theology from pseudonymous letters? / Terry L. Wilder. -- |
| Contents | [III.] Acts, Hebrews, and the Catholic letters -- 13. Whose Acts? And does it matter? / Steve Walton -- 14. The mysterious Letter to the "Hebrews": anonymity, uncertainty, and interpretation / Madison N. Pierce -- 15. The God who speaks : an inquiry into the authorship and the purpose of the Book to the Hebrews / Vuyani Stanley Sindo -- 16. Attested to us by those who heard Him : lesson on canon and discipleship from the anonymous Book of Hebrews / Julie M. Leyva -- 17. Unknown author and divine author : preaching the anonymous Letter to the Hebrews / Nathan Maroney -- 18. Pseudepigraphy, anonymity, and the authority of the Catholic Epistles : an Evangelical-Catholic perspective / Peter H. Davids -- [IV.] Conclusions. -- 19. Bear with this anonymous exhortation : the hermeneutical effect of anonymous authorship for readers of the New Testament / Chad Spellman -- 20. Unstable canons and the fingerprints of forgery : how to teach a New Testament / T. J. Lang -- 21. Recycling early Christian canon criteria : a recommendation for the use of disputed New Testament writings in church / Jermo van Nes. |
| Abstract | "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." -- Publisher, page four of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9781666782615 |
| ISBN | 1666782610 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781666782622 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1666782629 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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