More on Petrine Authorship
Hans Georg Lundahl has replied to my post on Petrine authorship on his blog: http://notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/anonymous-author-for-saint-peter.html I would like to take this opportunity to reply to his comments. The question is not why an anonymous Christian would want to pass himself off as the Apostle Peter - two works prove fairly well some did or were thought to have done so. Well it is an important question, but as you seem to concede it is established that it is not an obstacle at all. The question is how an anonymous author would succeed in passing himself (as author ego) off as the Apostle Peter. That is a different question, but yes, it is important too. However, as you say, two works prove fairly well that anonymous authors did believe they would successfully pass their works off as that of the apostles. The rejection of the Gospel and Apocalypse which both bear that name, show that early Christians did have some checks. Fair point, but these...