This volume identifies and investigates literary traditions and theirimplications for the authorship and dating of the Gospels and the letters ofthe New Testame... » 

This volume identifies and investigates literary traditions and theirimplications for the authorship and dating of the Gospels and the letters ofthe New Testament. Ellis argues that the Gospels and the letters are productsof the corporate authorship of four allied apostolic missions and not thecreation of individual authors. «