Were the Gospels anonymous? The answer is more complicated than you might think.- R/t скачать в хорошем качестве

Were the Gospels anonymous? The answer is more complicated than you might think.- R/t

TL;DR: 1. Although many regard the Gospels as "anonymous", that's really an oversimplification, since about 3/4 of the literature from that era did not include an internal statement of authorship. 2. In general, we find that verification of the authorship of the Gospels is several decades earlier, compared to other works from this time period. Also, subsequent, second attribution is also much earlier compared to other patterns of attribution. IMHO - This statistical analysis shows that calling the Gospels "anonymous" is at the very least an over-simplification. BACKGROUND: There's a lot of academic literature that delineates the degree of uncertainty in the topic of Gospel authorship. On the one hand, atheistic sources tend to argue that the Gospels ought to be treated as anonymous works. On the other hand, apologists argue that the evidence behind the traditional Gospel authorship is compelling. But there's very little real statistical analysis used in answering this question. METHODS: To my knowledge, this is the first statistical analysis of the questions that this video tries to tackle. I asked 2 questions: 1 - Does the internal lack of attribution of the Gospels to their respective authors match the practices of other authors of antiquity (from 100 BCE to 100 CE)? 2 - What about the later sources that attribute works to their respective authors? For each source that did not list an author internally (including Christian and non-Christian sources), how long is the time lag to the first attributing source and how long is the time lag to the second attributing source? In other words, if we write a text in antiquity without putting our name in the text, how long does it take for someone else to come along and verify that we indeed were the author of that work? How long until the next person comes along to provide additional verification? Then, I compiled a spreadsheet and crunched some numbers. And I made the spreadsheet available to all of you! Yay! You get your own spreadsheet for free! HOW TO DIRECTLY GET THE DATA FOR THIS VIDEO: Here's the link, if you want to download the spreadsheet: https://limewire.com/d/UqMFG#fG4Z3D2gQk Here's the link, if you want to download the graphs that I made: https://limewire.com/d/eTgEl#Qgq52zTLZ6 (Here's an alternative version of the spreadsheet that treats Paul's letters on a more individual basis, since I treated the letters of Paul as single corpus in the main spreadsheet: https://limewire.com/d/qnset#cO0ZmTjItF) In case these links expire, you can also email me, and my email is on the channel description page. Happy to share these files with anyone who is interested! MY RESULTS: In evaluating all of the works that we find from 100 BCE to 100 CE, 52 out of 72 works (72.2%) were internally anonymous, just like the Gospels. There was no significant difference in the prevalence of lack of internal authorship between Christian works and non-Christian works during this time period. However, there was a statistically significant difference in the time span between first and second verification of authorship. Authorship of Christian works tended to be verified sooner than other works. On average, for Christian works the first verification of authorship was 63.3 years. On average the second verification was at 89.0 years. For non-Christian works, these verifications of authorship from other sources were at 162.7 years and 284.6 years respectively. I'm fairly agnostic about most of these questions, but I'd love to know what you all think of this data. Is it good data? Does it change how you view this topic? The bottom line is that statistical analysis is fun and should be used to tackle questions around biblical scholarship more often. Some folks who I hope will weigh in on this video: ‪@Paulogia‬ ‪@maklelan‬ ‪@InspiringPhilosophy‬ ‪@bartdehrman‬ ‪@WesHuff‬ ‪@ApologeticsCanada‬ ‪@MikeWinger‬ If you know any of these folks or other biblical scholars, please share this data with them! #gospel #gospelauthorship #earlychristianity #christiancelebration #christianbelief #christiandoctrine #historicaljesus #factsaboutchristianity #bartehrman #atheismdebate #apologetics #tavosanabri ‪@TavoSanAbri‬ #statistics #synopticproblem #biblicalscholar 00:00 - Introduction 00:45 - About this channel 01:07 - How to download the spreadsheet I used for this video 01:50 - Channel promotion 02:25 - Background: What is the question and how did I try to answer it? 06:51 - Does the lack of internal attribution of the Gospels match what we find in other literature from this era? 07:15 - How did I process this statistically? 11:53 - How reliable were the primary and secondary attributions of the Gospels? 13:35 - When did the primary and secondary attributions of the Gospels occur relative to other literature? 15:35 - How should we interpret this information? 16:57 - Is there a double standard when it comes to Bible verification? 21:58 - Conclusion