In spite of the compression due to its form, this work was up to that time probably the ablest defense, based on external evidence, of the Johannine authorship, and certainly the most complete treatment of the relation of Justin Martyr to this gospel.

Craig Blomberg argues that disagreements over Johannine authorship of the fourth gospel tend to reflect methodological differences.

He is an intelligent maintainer of the Johannine authorship of the Fourth Gospel ; in connection with this thesis he was one of the first to argue for the early date and non-apostolic authorship of the Apocalypse.

On the other hand, many scholars strongly defend the Johannine authorship of these verses, and present opposing arguments and counter-analysis.

Zane C. Hodges and Arthur L. Farstad argue for Johannine authorship of the pericope.

He was regarded as a specialist concerning the hypothetical ‘ Johannine community ’, which he speculated contributed to the authorship of the Gospel of John, and he also wrote influential studies on the birth and death of Jesus.

They explicitly deny the Logos doctrine in John chapter 1 and they deny Johannine authorship by comparing his Gospel with the synoptic Gospels.

In it he collected with great fulness and discussed with marked moderation the arguments against Johannine authorship.

Scholars have debated the authorship of the Johannine works ( the Gospel of John, First, Second, and Third epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation ) since at least the 3rd century, but especially since the Enlightenment.

The United States Copyright Office defines copyright as " a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States ( title 17, U. S. Code ) to authors of " original works of authorship ".

The list of his other works, including his three erudite contributions to the question of authorship of the Imitatio Christi, will be found in C. Toussaint's scholarly article in Alfred Vacant's Dictionnaire de theologie ( 1900, cols 1115-1117 ).

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

In Shakespeare Identified, published in 1920, J. Thomas Looney, an English schoolteacher, proposed Oxford as a candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

Modern scholarship has doubted their authenticity, and these works are generally referred to as forming part of the " Hesiodic Corpus " whether or not their authorship is accepted.

Another limitation of current U. S. Intellectual Property legislation is its focus on individual and joint works ; thus, copyright protection can only be obtained in ' original ' works of authorship.

work is open access where the copyright holder has given general permission to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship.

Scholars defending Luke's authorship say there is no reason for early Christians to attribute these works to such a minor figure if he did not in fact write them, nor is there any tradition attributing this work to any other author.

The convergence of documentary evidence of the type used by academics for authorial attribution — title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians, and official records — sufficiently establishes Shakespeare's authorship for the overwhelming majority of Shakespeare scholars and literary historians, and no evidence links Oxford to Shakespeare's works.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

As with other candidates for authorship of Shakespeare's works, Oxford's supporters have attributed numerous non-Shakespearean works to him.

In lieu of any evidence of the type commonly used for authorship attribution, Oxfordians discard the methods used by historians and employ other types of arguments to make their case, the most common being supposed parallels between Oxford's life and Shakespeare's works.

Another is finding cryptic allusions to Oxford's supposed play writing in other literary works of the era that to them suggest that his authorship was obvious to those " in the know ".

Since Proclus died in 485, and since the first clear citation of Dionysius ' works is by Severus of Antioch between 518 and 528, then we can place Dionysius ' authorship between 485 and 518-28.

Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero but now considered to be of unknown authorship, is one of the most significant works on rhetoric and is still widely used as a reference today.

Parts of it may be based on older works, and it was a common practice to ascribe the authorship of a document to an ancient rabbi in order to give the document more weight.

Due to this notion, even today it is hard to trace the authorship of many earlier literary works from India.

Through his authorship of the scenario of the ballet Giselle, one of the foundation works of the dance repertoire, his influence remains as great among choreographers and dancers as among critics and balletomanes of ballet.

In the European Union, even if a Member State provides for the possibility of a legal person to be the original rightholder ( such as is possible in the UK ), then the duration of protection is in general the same as the copyright term for a personal copyright: i. e., for a literary or artistic work, 70 years from the death of the human author, or in the case of works of joint authorship, 70 years from the death of the last surviving author.

Some scholars consider Hapax legomena useful in determining the authorship of written works.

A final difficulty with the use of hapax legomena for authorship determination is that there is considerable variation among works known to be by a single author, and disparate authors often show similar values.

Delia Bacon withdrew from public life and lecturing in early 1845, and began to research intensively a theory she was developing over the authorship of Shakespeare's works, which she mapped out by October of that year.

The term Pseudo-Psellos is also used in modern scholarship to describe the authorship of several later works that are believed to have been falsely ascribed to Psellos in Byzantine times.

Those in favor of apostolic authorship point to the testimony of the early church fathers ( see " Early Theories " above ) and similarities between the Gospel of John and Revelation.

John Robinson in " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ) has heavily criticised Charles ' position and accepted apostolic authorship, dating John's Gospel before the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

* The authorship of the Fourth Gospel: external evidences ( 1880 )

Until the 19th century, the authorship of the Gospel of John had universally been attributed to the Apostle John.

The term the Beloved Disciple (" ον εφιλει ο Ιησους ") is used five times in the Gospel of John to indicate authorship.

This has resulted in debate among scholars, some suggesting doubts about the authorship of the Gospel of John, others providing explanations for it.

However, the exact identity of the " elder John " is wound up in the debate on the authorship of the Gospel of John, and scholars have differing opinions on that, e. g. Jack Finegan states that Eusebius may have misunderstood what Papias wrote, and the elder John may be a different person from the author of the fourth gospel, yet still a disciple of Jesus.

It was first named to Saint Matthew, who was one of the twelve disciples and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew.

* Gaius argument for Cerinthus ' authorship of the Gospel of John

Nevertheless, most critical scholars still reject Matthean authorship of the first Gospel.

As the fragment is removed from the autograph by at least one step of transmission, the date of authorship for the Gospel of John must be at least a few years prior to the dating of < sup > 52 </ sup >.

This, he argues, resulted in three key events: the translation of the original Matthew into Greek, the production of the Gospel of Mark within the context of Peter's preaching to Greek speaking converts in Rome, and Luke's authorship of his Gospel under the instruction of Paul.