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I\u2019m not the only blogger who was at the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, by any means. I am glad to see that Eric Vanden Eykel was inspired to revive his blog, and has posted a recap of the conference<\/a>. Timo Paananen has also posted a recap of day 1<\/a>. There was also a very strange post on G. W. Schwendner\u2019s blog<\/a> which was trying to interact with the Gospel of Jesus\u2019 Wife session through online blog summaries, and\u00a0which got both the names of scholars and the details of what was presented wrong. The post is gone now, and so I really don\u2019t know what to make of that strange incident!<\/p>\n

A major focus at the conference was pseudepigraphy and forgery. And so I will share here, of related interest, Keith Reich\u2019s two recent blog posts, questioning the assumption<\/a> that the Gospels were originally anonymous<\/a>. If titles can be found in our earliest manuscripts of a work, is it\u00a0in any sense accurate to say that work is anonymous? We might still want to make the case that the work is misattributed, or pseudepigraphal. Indeed, the way of referring to the four canonical Gospels \u2013 and others \u2013 as \u201cthe Gospel according to X\u201d seems to suggest that the titles were added by someone other than the authors, to distinguish multiple works in the same category. But if this happened early enough that the authors\u2019 names were known, then it is still questionable whether \u201canonymous\u201d is the right category.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not the only blogger who was at the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, by any means. I am glad to see that Eric Vanden Eykel was inspired to revive his blog, and has posted a recap of the conference. Timo Paananen has also posted a recap of day 1. 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