Did Moses write the Pentateuch? -- Who wrote the Analects? -- Who wrote the Secret gospel of Mark? -- Did Abelard and Heloise write the letters attributed to them? -- Who wrote the Compendium of chronicles (Jami al-tawarik) and the collection of letters attributed to Rashid al-Din? -- Who wrote Shakespeare? -- Who wrote the works attributed to Prince Andrei Kurbskii? -- How inauthentic was James Macpherson's translation of Ossian? -- Did Mikhail Sholokhov write The quiet Don? -- Afterword : lessons learned.
Summary
"This book examines nine authorship controversies with the goal of providing an introduction to the issues involved in each case and of laying the groundwork for eventually having a separate field of authorship studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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