Who Was Jesus Ghost Writer?

Nobody knows who first wrote the The Gospels.
In the world they were written in they were dissident
self publishing and an extension of dissident self belief.
It is said they are true because copies of them littered the ancient world
more than any other documents and the copies found now
are relatively consistent with each other.
That is the history of those words.
The proof of who actually did write them no longer exists,
and when it did exist nobody was interested.

Few writers in history were credited
with what they wrote, and fewer still kept
their ownership and identity down the ages.
Even in Britain up to the mid 19th century
custom forced many authors, particularly women,
to write anonymously, or under a pseudonym,
to be read by the public at all. Only now
are the names, once invisible in the past,
irreversibly attached with their work-
and still their lives remain mysterious.

Whoever Jesus ghost writers were
and however they portrayed his centrality
to the characters around him, from a distance
of 2000 years, can we get under the skin
of what it was like to live under Roman Rule?
All talk of 'humble origins' is euphemism
for a life of fear and shame under militarism
and however well Jesus lived, anyone who feared
and wrote was not going to be known for their writings.