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HARUN YAHYA                     127


            Gospels are really their work. In his The Historical Figure of Jesus, E. P.
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            Sanders, a noted Biblical researcher, describes the writing of the Gospels
            in these terms:
                 Present evidence indicates that the gospels remained untitled until the sec-
                 ond half of the second century… The gospels as we have them were
                 quoted in the first half of the second century, but always anony-
                 mously. Names suddenly appear about the year 180. By then there
                 were a lot of gospels, not just our four, and the Christians had to decide
                 which ones were authoritative. This was a major issue, on which there were



                  The idea that the Gospel's authors used of a single source is today generally
                  accepted by researchers.
                  (Below) The four authors of the Gospels studying the Holy Book they took
                  as their source. Jacob Jordaens, 1625, Louvre Museum, Paris.
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