Mark Schaefer
Mar 19, 2022

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“Forgery” implies that they are pretending to be someone else’s work. The gospels were written anonymously and carry no attribution. It was later tradition that assigned authorship based on guesses and fanciful interpretation. But the word forgery is inappropriate here.

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Mark Schaefer
Mark Schaefer

Written by Mark Schaefer

Writer, lawyer, amateur linguist, theologian, and Red Sox fan. Upstate NY transplant in DC. Author of “The Certainty of Uncertainty.”

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