Virtually everything that we can know about Jesus comes from the four Gospels contained in the New Testament. The Gospels are, by far, our earliest and best historical sources regarding the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus. Since the Gospels are so central to our understanding of Jesus, it is important that we know where this information is coming from. It is important that we know who authored the Gospels, that the authors were well placed to know they were talking about, and that what they report is true. But who exactly wrote the Gospels? Were they in a good position to know what they were talking about? And are their accounts trustworthy?

Sources:

Jesus Before the Gospels – Bart. D. Ehrman

The Case for Jesus – Brant Pitre

“The Alleged Anonymity of the Canonical Gospels” JTS 69 (2018) – Simon Gathercole

Who Wrote the Gospels? – Randel McGraw Helms

Tax Collector to Gospel Writer – Michael J. Kok

Come Let us Reason – Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, editors

The Historical Reliability of the New Testament – Craig L. Blomberg

Matthew: Apostle and Evangelist – Edgar J. Goodspeed

Preface to Luke – Harold Riley

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses Second Edition – Richard Bauckham

The Eye of the Beholder – Lydia McGrew

The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple – Richard Bauckham

Challenging Perspectives on the Gospel of John – John Lierman, editor

Who Chose the Gospels? – Charles E. Hill

The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology – William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland, editors

Jesus Interrupted – Bart D. Ehrman

Papias and the New Testament – Monte A. Shanks

The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church – Charles E. Hill

‘What Papias Said about John (and Luke): A ‘‘New’’ Papian Fragment’, JTS 49 (1998) – Charles E. Hill

The Gospel on the Margins – Michael J. Kok

The Legacy of John – Tuomas Rasimus, editor

From the Lost Teaching of Polycarp – Charles E. Hill

On the Historicity of Jesus – Richard C. Carrier

The Three Gospels – Martin Mosse

“The Authorship of The Gospel of Matthew: A Reconsideration of the External Evidence,” NTS 14, (1967) – Stewart C. Petrie

The Order of the Synoptics: Why Three Synoptic Gospels? – Bernard Orchard and Harold Riley

“Papias as Rhetorician: Ekphrasis in the Bishop’s Account of Judas’ Death” NTS 56 (2010) Christopher B. Zeichmann,

Intertextuality in the Second Century – Jeffrey Bingham and Clayton N. Jefford, editors

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Redating Matthew, Mark, & Luke – John Wenham

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