Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities.
In this book, Robyn Faith Walsh.
Whether described as documenting intra-group \'oral traditions\' or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something akin to the Romantic poet speaking for their Volk - a questionable framework inherited from nineteenth-century German Romanticism.
Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities