Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2020
Abstract
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by several biblical scholars, asking what I thought of the article by Hugo Méndez in the Journal of New Testament Studies, as well as its treatment in the Daily Beast by the leading religion commentator, Candida Moss. I like and respect Professors Moss and Méndez, so I was of course interested in the issues they were engaging. I also had lunch with Bart Ehrman in Marburg last August, at the international Society of New Testament Studies meetings, so I was curious to see what Hugo might have done with Bart’s work on early Christian pseudepigraphal (falseauthorship) writings. As Johannine scholarship has been a lifelong pursuit for me, keeping up on the latest is always of interest. I then received an invitation by Mark Elliott, editor of Bible and Interpretation, to write a response. I said I was tempted but was facing a few other deadlines. When he later shared that he was hoping I might yield to that temptation, I agreed to write a response, so here it is.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Paul N., "On Biblical Forgeries and Imagined Communities—A Critical Analysis of Recent Criticism" (2020). Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology. 372.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ccs/372
Comments
Originally published in The Bible and Its Interpretation, April 2020.
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/biblical-forgeries-and-imagined-communities-critical-analysis-recent-criticism