[AnAmericanMother]

Nope, I've read the Gospels in the original Greek, and that material is plainly there for all to read. We have more copies of the Gospels (and the Acts of the Apostles) in the original Greek than most texts from the ancient world (many of which we do in fact have only in later Latin translations -- but that is NOT the case with the NT).

The idea about "writers, redactors, and interpolators in Rome" is simply a red herring thrown up by those who insist on treating eastern-Mediterranean Jews as anti-Semites because they report negatively on their persecutors.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Nope, I've read the Gospels in the original Greek, and that material is plainly there for all to read. We have more copies of the Gospels (and the Acts of the Apostles) in the original Greek than most texts from the ancient world (many of which we do in fact have only in later Latin translations -- but that is NOT the case with the NT).

Yup. Whoop de do you've read the gospels in Greek. Doesn't matter what language. If you want to assume groups such as the Pharisees were raving lunatics, kniving conspirators involved in a plot to kill their own people that's your problem.

The idea about "writers, redactors, and interpolators in Rome" is simply a red herring thrown up by those who insist on treating eastern-Mediterranean Jews as anti-Semites because they report negatively on their persecutors.

You got it. All except for the red herring part.