NT Wright's View of Gospel Authorship

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

By today’s standards not naming a source is lazy scholarship - but in a non-literary culture it’s a sign of authoritative texts that are familiar enough to both author and reader to be common currency. The question then becomes how those gospels became universally authoritative so early, in a church scattered across the Roman Empire.

That’s exactly right.

[colewd (Bill Cole)]

NT Wrights opinion is interesting here.