CNN —The version of Easter you’re likely familiar with probably starts with how the Bible tells the story.
As I show in my book, “God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Marking of the Bible,” ancient dictation was bare bones and idiosyncratic.
Someone might respond that while enslaved and formerly enslaved secretaries and copyists were present, they were still not authors.
What we know is that Paul and Tertius wrote the Letter to the Romans together and that collaboration moves us into the realm of speculation.
Saying that Paul “wrote Romans” when Romans itself claims that it was written by Tertius isn’t just speculative, it’s wrong.
Persons:
Candida Moss, Edward Cadbury, John, Pontius Pilate, Jesus, Candida Moss Brian McConkey, Pilate, ” Pilate, It’s, Paul, Tertius, “, Mark, Peter’s “, Peter, ’, Roman enslavers, Varro, Martial, Roman, papyrologists Roger Bagnall, Raffaella, Douglas Sacha, ”, copyists, ” John Calvin, William Barclay, Tertius “, Barclay, Paul “, Tertius isn’t, Lord Jesus Christ, —
Organizations:
University of Birmingham, Notre Dame, CNN, Jewish, “ Institutes
Locations:
Judea