The Anonymous Gospel Manuscripts

[Mudhammam]

Do we treat the entire gospel as "reliable"? Of course not, but that's not the point. Within there is some historicity and some things in particular we can say about the teachings and ministry of Jesus.

Exactly. This notion that legendary features discount the veracity of an entire text is absurd. The Gospels lie somewhere between Homer and Plutarch; with all of the folklore, that you'd expect to find in the likes of, say, that great blind poet, are mixed the sorts of mundane details that a historian finds useful.