differently than contemporary readers. This theory holds that followers or the “school” of a particular writer could produce works that then could be attributed to the writer himself. Scholars who subscribe to this thinking assert that the Gospel of Matthew is the work of a “Matthean community” and not directly written by Matthew’s hand. Church teaching is clear about the authorship of the Gospels, and Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation from the Second Vatican Council, specifically