(March 15, 2015 at 7:39 am)robvalue Wrote: Well, I have a particular problem with the gospels because we have no idea at all who wrote them. So trying to get into their head seems like virtually guesswork to me.
Why must you know who they were in order to do a proper critical analysis of the text? We do have an idea of what kind of people they were, but not who exactly they were.
I'm just confused by this thinking, that's all.