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In an article on the Authorship of the Petrine epistles in Wikipedia a comment is made:
The great majority of scholars agree that Peter has not written this
letter. For example, textual critic Daniel Wallace (who maintains
that Peter was the author) writes that, for most experts, "the issue
of authorship is already settled, at least negatively: the apostle
Peter did not write this letter" and that "the vast bulk of NT
scholars adopt this perspective without much discussion". Werner
Kümmel exemplifies this position, stating, "It is certain, therefore,
that 2 Pet does not originate with Peter, and this is today widely
acknowledged", as does Stephen L Harris, who states that
"[v]irtually no authorities defend the Petrine authorship of 2
Peter." Evangelical scholars D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo wrote
that "most modern scholars do not think that the apostle Peter wrote
this letter…
It sounds pretty impressive, as it is a form of admission against interest. But has anyone actually published a statistical analysis to confirm this concession by evangelical scholars?
For example, I read someplace that Craig Keener apparently surveyed the literature and found that the majority of academic papers on the subject favoured the traditional authorship of Mark, Luke and Acts, despite statements to the contrary by some “critical” scholars. Has this been done for other books in the New Testament?
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