The Transmission of the NT: The Composition Process

Published: March 19, 2008, 6:30 p.m.

b"For hundreds of years, scholars refused to believe that Matthew, Luke, Paul, and Peter could have written the books of the Bible that bear their names. Instead, it was widely believed that men from the late second and third centuries wrote the documents and put the apostles' names on them for credibility. The discovery of a famous fragment from John's Gospel in 1920 changed all that forever. Read how the New Testament came together and discover that all of the New Testament was written before the end of the first century and much of it was written decades before then."