Secretaries and the Authorship of New Testament Epistles: Evaluating the Historical Method behind the Amanuensis Hypothesis.
The amanuensis hypothesis has long been a popular method of defending traditional authorship claims of disputed NT epistles. Scholars who espouse this view maintain that, in the Greco-Roman world, secretaries were afforded the freedom to (extensively) shape the letters they transcribed. As a result,...
| Published in: | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 502 - 521 |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
Jul2025
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