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Originally posted by Superman
Also, scholars have revised their estimates in recent years. Not that much different, but almost nobody dates any gospel more than one hundred years AD. 90 is basically the latest. The earliest used to be in the 50-60 neighborhood, but now they are thinking as early as 45 or even 40. Fact is, it oooks like there were some people who were alive at the time of the crucifixion....and still alive when the LAST gospel was written. This crap about multiple generations coming between the events and the writings is just that....crap.
But hey, if you are trying to descredit the document, you will surely find all the justification you need. If you were trying to UNDERSTAND it, the same thing would happen.
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first soild date is
''The use of gospel (or its Greek equivalent evangelion) to denote a particular genre of writing dates to the 2nd century. It is unclear what was used when Justin Martyr (c. 155) is the first to mention The Memoirs of the Apostles called the Gospels (1 Apology 66) and more ambiguously so earlier in Ignatius of Antioch (c. 117)''
before that no real dates
''The following are mostly the date ranges given by the late Raymond E. Brown, in his book An Introduction to the New Testament, as representing the general scholarly consensus in 1996:
* Mark: c. 68–73
* Matthew: c. 70–100 as the majority view; the minority of conservative scholars argue for a pre-70 date, particularly those that do not accept Mark as the first gospel written.
* Luke: c. 80–100, with most arguing for somewhere around 85
* John: c. 90–110. Brown does not give a consensus view for John, but these are dates as propounded by C K Barrett, among others. The majority view is that it was written in stages, so there was no one date of composition.''
conservative scholars date a little earlyer
''Here are the dates given in the modern NIV Study Bible:
* Mark: c. 50's to early 60's, or late 60's
* Matthew: c. 50 to 70's
* Luke: c. 59 to 63, or 70's to 80's
* John: c. 85 to near 100, ''
NOBODY with 40's dates at all