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Jesus defies explanation. You can’t just put him in a category and then say you have him figured out….
The New Testament is really an amazing set of documents. It is only logical to ask how it got written in the first place. We have already talked about how it was transmitted to us, how they were copied, how the texts were scattered all over the Middle East, and how textual critics study them to try to find out what the original text really looked like. But we left open the question of its original composition until now.One of the best ways of getting at this is to take a look at what things looked like—what was happening—in