Category: Gary Michuta

  • Michuta on the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals in the so-called Epistle of Barnabas

    Gary Michuta tries to argue that the (pseudographic) Epistle of Barnabas quotes from the apocryphal/deuterocanonical book of the Wisdom of Solomon (also pseudonymous).  At pages 59-60, he writes: The Epistle of Barnabas (ca. AD 70) The title of this work is something of a misnomer; modern scholars do not consider The Epistle of Barnabas to…

  • Michuta on Augustine on the Canon – Some Mistakes Corrected

    One of the faults of Gary Michuta’s “Why are Catholic Bibles Bigger,” is its apparent uncritical reliance on a number of secondary sources, especially Breen’s “General and Critical Introduction,” (here is one problem that came from that) and Gigot’s “General Introduction.” In the section on Augustine, Michuta seems to draw mostly from Charles J. Costello’s…