#354 Are the Gospels Anonymous? A Scholar Responds, with Adam Claasen

If someone told you the Gospels were “anonymous legends written decades later,” would you know how to answer without panic-googling?In this episode, Historian Adam Claason joins me for a deep (but very accessible) conversation on gospel reliability. We discuss who actually wrote Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John…and does it matter?We tackle the viral claim that “the Gospels never name their authors” (true)… and why that doesn’t mean the church just made the names up. Adam breaks down how ancient historians evaluated sources, why eyewitness testimony carried weight in the Greco-Roman world, what Luke is doing in his opening lines,