The Doctrine of Christ and the Triump of Hellenism
WHAT SCHOLARS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST
[ All statements cited in the following compilation are presented without quotation marks, but the sub-headings in bold print are my own, and all comments within the square brackets as used here are my editorial comments.]
Burton L. Mack, Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth [Dr. Mack, professor of early Christianity at the School of Theology at Claremont]
The assignment of names and the arrangement of the New Testament writings are misleading.
Scholars agree…most of the writings of the New Testament were either written anonymously and later assigned to a person of the past or written later as a pseudonym for some person thought to have been important for the earliest period. Striking examples of the latter are the two letters said to have been written by Peter, both of which are clearly second-century creations.