I NEVER SAID that this was written by a single scribe. YOU mad the assertion without knowing what scribes did. They transcribed (documented) what others said as best they could.
Where were the disciples after Jesua (Jesus) died.
THEY SPLIT and were never to be heard from again until Paul tracked some of them down and got statements.
They basically went into hiding for two plus decades and after having their statements transcribed for Paul, they went back into hiding.
Timothy went as far as India go escape from Herod. Where the others went I don’t know but they most likely went back to their old careers under assumed names.
“Where were the disciples after Jesua (Jesus) died.
THEY SPLIT and were never to be heard from again until Paul tracked some of them down and got statements.”
Uh...Wrong. Act records that the disciples were preaching in Jerusalem shortly after the resurrection and before Paul’s encounter with Christ. Elsewhere you mentioned it being against the law for them to write/read. Got news for you, it was against the law for them to preach Christ, and they did that (Peter and John were beaten for it, Steven was stoned to death for it.) In fact, this is a very important proof that the resurrection did, in fact, happen. If Christ did not rise from the dead, how would you account for the willingness of these individuals to risk their lives (all of them died martyrs deaths, by the way)? If they knew the resurrection was a fallacy, it is doubtful that EVERY ONE OF THEM would have subjected themselves to the lives of persecution and the death of martyrs that they were willing to endure.
As for Paul’s encounter with Christ, you reason that Jesus was a common name. But the Jesus with whom Paul had dealings said to him, “Saul, Saul why persecutest thou Me...I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.” The Lord narrowed it down quite nicely which Jesus it was that was talking with him.