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The traditional authors are unknown and the names were attributed to them arbitrarily to make it seem more credible : Peter the apostle (First and Second Peter); the author of the Gospel of John (First, Second and Third John), writing in advanced age; "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James" (Epistle of Jude); and James the Just ...
The problem the Old Testament authors faced was that a good God must have had just reason for bringing disaster (meaning notably, but not only, the Babylonian exile) upon his people. The theme is played out, with many variations, in books as different as the histories of Kings and Chronicles, the prophets like Ezekiel and Jeremiah , and in the ...
Appears in many ancient inscriptions, most notably the Cyrus Cylinder. [25] He is also mentioned in Herodotus' Histories. Is. 45:1, Dn. 1:21: Darius I: King of Persia 522–486: Mentioned in the books of Haggai, Zechariah and Ezra. [26] [27] He is the author of the Behistun Inscription. He is also mentioned in Herodotus' Histories. Hg. 1:1, Ezr ...
Melito of Sardis (died c. 180) Athenagoras of Athens (c. 133 – c. 190) Dionysius of Corinth (fl. c. 171) Heracleon (fl. c. 175) Apollinaris Claudius (fl. c. 177) Ptolemy (fl. c. 180) Pantaenus (died c. 200) Irenaeus of Lyons (died c. 202) Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. c. 180 – c. 210) Serapion of Antioch (died 211) Clement of Alexandria (c ...
David Hume (died 1776), who, while admitting the existence of God, rejected the supernatural, and made attacks on different parts of the Old and the New Testament; They were opposed by these writers: [author incomplete]
The New Testament includes four canonical gospels, (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) but there are many gospels not included in the biblical canon. [3] These additional gospels are referred to as either New Testament apocrypha or pseudepigrapha. [4] [5] Some of these texts have impacted Christian traditions, including many forms of iconography.
Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. [1] The tradition probably began with the legalistic code of the Book of Deuteronomy and was then gradually extended until Moses, as the central character, came to be regarded not just as the mediator of law but as author of both laws and ...
[130] [14] The Dead Sea Scrolls contain parts of all but one of the books of the Tanakh of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament protocanon. They also include four of the deuterocanonical books included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles: Tobit , Sirach , Baruch 6 (also known as the Letter or Epistle of Jeremiah ), and Psalm 151 . [ 130 ]