Christianity
Who Wrote the Bible?
Anwar al-Maghribī highlights that the first gospel was written around forty years after the death of Jesus. During this period, early Christians transmitted stories orally, shaping their understanding of Jesus. The post questions who these narrators were, their credibility, and whether they were trustworthy.
A period of forty years separates the death of Jesus from the writing of the first gospel. History offers us little direct evidence about the events of this period, but it does suggest that the early Christians were engaged in one of the most basic of human activities: story-telling. It appears that between the death of Jesus and the writing of the first gospel, Mark, that they clearly are telling stories. They’re passing on the tradition of what happened to Jesus, what he stood for and what he did, orally, by telling it and retelling it. And in the process they are defining Jesus for themselves.However, who are were these narrators, where did they come from, what were their credibilities and more importantly, were they trustworthy?
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