About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 109. Chapters: Documentary hypothesis, Authorship of the Johannine works, Authorship of the Pauline epistles, Authorship of the Petrine epistles, Biblical Sabbath, Canonical criticism, Christ's agony at Gethsemane, Dating the Bible, Development of the Jewish Bible canon, Documentary hypothesis, Form criticism, Higher criticism, Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles, Jesus and the woman taken in adultery, Johannine literature, John 21, List of Bible verses not included in modern translations, Mark 16, Nativity of Jesus, Novum Testamentum Graece, Panbabylonism, Peake's commentary on the Bible, Ritual Decalogue, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan Torah, Tetragrammaton in the New Testament, Textual criticism, The Bible and history, Wiseman hypothesis, Blessing of Jacob, Blessing of Moses, Book of generations, Covenant Code, Deuteronomic Code, Deuteronomist, Elohist, Holiness code, JE, Julius Wellhausen, Karl Heinrich Graf, New Testament and Mythology, Priestly Code, Priestly source, Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels, Ritual Decalogue, Song of the sea, Stations of the Exodus, The Bible with Sources Revealed, Torah redactor, Who Wrote the Bible?. Excerpt: Scholars have debated the authorship of the Johannine works (Gospel of John, the first, second, and third epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation) since at least the third century. Beasley-Murray notes, "Everything we want to know about this book is uncertain, and everything about it that is apparently knowable is matter of dispute (sic)." The main debate centers on (1) Whether these works were authored by the same person, and (2) The identity of the author(s). Ancient tradition attributes all the books to John the Apostle. In the 6th century, the Decretum Gelasianum argued that Second and Third John have a separate author known as "John, a priest" (see John the Presbyter). Higher criticism, representing most liberal Christian and secular scholars, d...
