[AnAmericanMother]

My personal opinion is that the New Testament is over-analyzed by "New Testament Scholars" who are not in fact writers or experienced in literature.

I stand with C.S. Lewis (a man far more experienced in literature, textual analysis, and writing than I) whose opinion was that those who wrote the Gospels were either factual reporters or had invented the "realistic novel" about 1900 years earlier than anybody else.

If you read them in the spare, streamlined Greek of the originals, it's clear that they are not literary efforts but reportage.

[af_vet_1981]

My personal opinion is that the New Testament is over-analyzed by "New Testament Scholars" who are not in fact writers or experienced in literature.

Oh. Do you think the content so unnerves them that they write off the authorship as illegitimate as in this case ?

I stand with C.S. Lewis (a man far more experienced in literature, textual analysis, and writing than I) whose opinion was that those who wrote the Gospels were either factual reporters or had invented the "realistic novel" about 1900 years earlier than anybody else.

You could pick a plethora of lesser authors to stand with. Lewis was a great one.

If you read them in the spare, streamlined Greek of the originals, it's clear that they are not literary efforts but reportage.

Romans, Jude, James, Hebrews reportage ?

[af_vet_1981]

Did you did read and analyze this site before reaching your conclusions about the letter and its authorship ?