David Pallmann recently released a good video on the alleged anonymity of the gospels . It covers a lot of ground and includes a large amoun...

Cameron Bertuzzi recently posted a video asking Protestants a few questions about Hebrews . I've addressed the questions before, but I...

He's one of the earliest extrabiblical sources who comments on Christianity, he addresses some significant issues, and many people think...

A neglected line of evidence for the fourth gospel's authorship is how closely John 19:35, 20:31, and 21:24 align with what Jesus said a...

Not every part of the gospels (and Acts, which is a continuation of one of the gospels) is written in the third person (e.g., Luke 1:1-3, Ac...

It's sometimes claimed that Irenaeus thought the fourth gospel was written by some other John, often referred to as John the Elder. I re...

I've sometimes linked a collection of resources I put together on the best and earliest evidence for the authorship of the gospels . A m...

I want to expand on some things I said in my last post . When somebody like Bart Ehrman refers to the unlikelihood that the average first-ce...

Bart Ehrman and Mike Licona recently debated the subject . I listened to the debate while doing something else and didn't take notes, so...

When critics of the traditional gospel authorship attributions discuss the subject, they sometimes distinguish between the two earlier gospe...

We often think of the evidence for the authorship of the gospels in terms of internal evidence and external sources of the patristic era, li...

The authorship of the gospel of Matthew has important implications for issues related to the childhood of Jesus. The gospel says a lot about...

Michael Jones (InspiringPhilosophy) recently released a good video on the subject . We've written a lot about it as well. You can click ...

When skeptics put forward hypotheses in which second-century Christians speculated about New Testament origins without having received much ...

It's become popular to argue that when Papias attributed some documents to Mark and Matthew, he wasn't referring to the canonical go...

Mark 3:17 tells us that Jesus referred to the sons of Zebedee as Sons of Thunder. To my knowledge, thunder is referred to several times in t...

A neglected aspect of the evidence for the authorship of the gospels is how much more prominent the authorship of the gospels was than the a...

1 Corinthians 15 often comes up in the context of Easter. A lot of attention is given to the state of the Corinthian church at the time, wha...

I've written before about how Acts ends with a "we" passage that places the author in Rome and how some of the earliest eviden...

It's common to suggest that all or some large percentage of gospel authorship attributions among the patristic sources can be traced bac...