“The various writings—narrative, epistolary, and apocalyptic—which make up the New Testament had no common origin, but were composed at different times by at least a score of writers in places which, in view of the difficulties presented to travel by the ancient world, may be said to have been widely remote from each other. With the exception of the Epistles of Paul, none of them, or next to none, were composed until about fifty years after the death of Jesus; and another hundred years elapsed before they were assembled in one collection and began to take their place alongside the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible as authoritative scriptures.”

— Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare

p. 1 https://archive.org/details/cu31924029302191/page/n13
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The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis (2000), Chapter 8 : Misinterpretations of Rigvedic History

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