Apologetic Discourse and the Scribal Tradition: Evidence of the Influence of Apologetic Interests on the Text of the Canonical Gospels

Kannaday (religion and philosophy, Newberry College) asserts that apologetic interests influenced those who preserved and reproduced the early gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Working from variant readings from traditional texts, as well as from the contexts of early Christianity, Kannaday finds sufficient evidence to support his assertion