Subject: Re: Music, religion, etc.
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 19:15:30 EST
In a message dated 1/18/00 5:33:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com writes:
> 5. Most other things in the NT were probably written in the second
> century CE.
>
Ok, I've read scholarship along these lines -- not just this one point, but
all of your points up to here.
You can't make these affirmations with "certainty." I've read the arguments
on all sides, and some are stronger than others, but none are conclusive.
You're right about the apocryphal Gospels being written much later and
claiming to have been written by eyewitnesses, but if you read them the Read
much differently than the canonical Gospels. They're pretty clearly written
by someone with a Hellenist background, perhaps Gnostic, as opposed to, say,
Matthew or even John. John is often read as a Gnostic, he sounds more like
an Essene, but the most esoteric part of his Gospel (John 1:1-14) reads more
like a parallel to Genesis than a Gnostic Gospel presentation (the word
became flesh).
Now...with Paul's epistles...the whole approach to this is pretty radically
argued over by theologians. Let's throw Hebrews out of this discussion.
I've decided I'm in Origen's camp on this one, "Who the author of this
epistle is, God only knows." But you realize you have to allow for
divergences in the message according to the needs of the audience. I don't
see a very radically different theology being presented in each of the
epistles -- say, between Romans and Galatians (ok, I don't think these are
ever questioned), or between Ephesians and Colossians.
Jim
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