The most common way to doubt the orthodox authorship claims of the New Testament has been to claim that the apostles could not have written their books of the New Testament because they could not write books at all. The argument goes that because the apostles were poorer peasants they would not be able to afford education to learn how to read and write (Antiquity had no public schooling system so the only way to learn how to read and write would be to hire an expensive tutor), therefore it’s unlikely that the apostles were able to write long theological treatises and gospels in Greek.
Could Matthew Possibly Write Matthew?
The most common way to doubt the orthodox authorship claims of the New Testament has been to claim that the apostles could not have written their books of the New Testament because they could not write books at all. The argument goes that because the apostles were poorer peasants they would not be able to afford education to learn how to read and write (Antiquity had no public schooling system so the only way to learn how to read and write would be to hire an expensive tutor), therefore it’s unlikely that the apostles were able to write long theological treatises and gospels in Greek.