Episode 69: Gospel Authorship with Michael Kok

Data Over Dogma

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

When you look at the New Testament and you see "The Gospel According to Matthew" or "The Gospel According to John", you could be forgiven for assuming that what you're getting is a book written by the apostle Matthew or John. But many scholars are convinced that this is not the case. Why don't they believe that these disciples of Jesus actually wrote the books that bear their name? This week, we're joined by bible scholar and gospel authorship expert Michael Kok. Dr. Kok will walk us through many of the reasons scholars question the traditional attributions, and give some insights into the very clever detective work that got them to those conclusions. Will this episode end like an episode of Scooby Doo, with us finally uncloaking the real authors? You'll have to listen to the end to find out! For early access to an ad-free version of every episode of Data Over Dogma, exclusive content, and the opportunity to support our work, please consider becoming a monthly patron at: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma Follow us on the various social media places: https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod https://www.twitter.com/data_over_dogma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When it comes to authorship, I know these debates get heated and apologetic versus anti-apologetic.
0:08.0	I would just probably defend maybe three theses where I would say the Gospels are formerly anonymous.
0:16.3	The titles of the Gospel according to Matthew Mark Luke or John are secondary, so they
0:21.9	are added by scribes.
0:24.0	And that we can kind of look at the traditions
0:26.1	in the second century and kind of piece together
0:28.8	why they ascribe them to those figures.
0:31.1	And I think those Christians in the second century were answering questions in the second century.
0:36.0	So they're more helpful for how did they receive the Gospels and maybe not necessarily are they historically accurate to how the
0:43.9	gospel originated.
0:49.6	Hey everybody, I'm Dan McCle. And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:53.0	And you're listening to the Data Over Dogma Podcast,
0:55.4	where we increase public access to the academic study
0:58.0	of the Bible and religion,
0:59.7	and we combat the spread of misinformation about the same.
1:02.8	How are things Dan?
1:04.1	Man, things are good.
1:05.4	It's a million degrees right now in Salt Lake City,
1:08.4	but yeah, I got 96 right now.
1:11.3	It was 100 yesterday.
1:12.4	So, you know, we're out here melting, but that's all right. That's all right. We, fortunately, we're spending today talking to a Canadian, so maybe that will cool things down I don't know yeah
1:24.3	we're gonna aim at the first half of our two rhetorical goals for this podcast
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