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We should not take anything for granted when investigating the beginnings of early Christian history. This includes our best source of information on Jesus’s life and teachings—the Gospels themselves.1

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Footnotes

1. Eta Linnemann, “Is There a Gospel of Q?” Bible Review, August 1995.

2. For more on the authorship of these books, see Mikeal C. Parsons, “Who Wrote the Gospel of Luke?” Bible Review, April 2001; Robin Griffith-Jones, “The Un-Gospel of John,” Bible Review, February 2002.

Endnotes

1.
See Robyn Faith Walsh, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament Within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021).