The Bible contains books written by ‘”eyewitnesses” to the life and teaching of Jesus. One such book is the famous Second Letter of St Peter.

However, virtually all New Testament scholars today think it is highly unlikely (or even ‘impossible’) that Peter, the disciple of Jesus, actually wrote the letter attributed to him, and it is almost certainly a forgery.

For more detail see: Authorship of the Petrine epistles

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N.T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill and Oxford Universities.

Michael F. Bird is a leading academic on New Testament studies and Christian Theology. He is Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia.