Higher criticism is a plague to God’s church. This article discusses the origin of higher criticism, linking it to the Renaissance. Higher criticism questions the origin, authorship, and inspiration of scripture.

Higher criticism is a plague to God’s church. This article discusses the origin of higher criticism, linking it to the Renaissance. Higher criticism questions the origin, authorship, and inspiration of scripture.

This the second article by this author on the principles of textual criticism. In the past, higher criticism has tended to leave the Bible to human authorship only. The author here embraces the inerrancy, inspiration, and divine authorship of scripture.

This article looks at the application of the intellectual property laws and copyright laws to literature. The author focusses on the concepts of authorship and the use of ghost writers. 

Some biblical scholars believe that the four Gospels were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. According to this view, the traditional authorship was assigned or guessed at by the early church. This suggestion is put forward, casting doubt on the traditional authors, without much examination of its own merits. This article argues that the evidence for this position is limited. The belief that there originally was anonymity of authorship of the Gospels is unlikely.

In the recent past several major commentaries and monographs on the Pastoral Epistles have been published. This article ask what light these recent works have shed on the study of this group of writings. The focus is on several of the major hermeneutical and exegetical challenges with which the modern interpreter is confronted in the study of the Pastoral Epistles.