This book comprehensively surveys the origin, production and reception of the canonical gospels in the early church. The discussion unfolds in three steps.
Leading experts in New Testament studies discuss the origins, composition and reception of the canonical gospels in the early church within this volume. Beginning with their earliest oral forms during the lifetime of Jesus and moving through the processes of oral tradition to their written composition by the evangelists, the book then traces the continuation of this history in the gospels' subs…