![]() The anonymously authored Canonical Gospels reflect this attitude. The Gospels, early Christians felt, would more likely be viewed as accurate, authentic, and persuasive if the flock believed that they were written by the disciples of Jesus, eyewitnesses to his ministry. Following the Jewish literary tradition of pseudoepigraphic works, an anonymous writer would "speak" in the name of a historical figure. ![]() Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Ĭhristians have traditionally attributed the authorship of the New Testament to legendary figures from early Christianity. ![]() ![]() “ ”Just like the Old Testament, the "New" one is also a work of crude carpentry, hammered together long after its purported events, and full of improvised attempts to make things come out right. ![]()
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