Thank you for this. I’m looking forward to seeing how you develop the rest of the thread. I’m also curious as to the responses you will get as to the dating. I don’t disagree with any of your dates, but will say that I think most scholars still hold that Luke was written in the mid 80s CE. There’s a fast growing scholarship among those like Dr. Steve Mason, Dr. Marker, Dr. Robyn, Faith Walsh and others that place Luke/Acts in the early to mid second century. Even Bart Eman, who holds to the earlier dating will acknowledge the growing scholarship to put it in the second century.
For context, I'd like to know your sources for concluding the dates you've attributed to each of the NT books. Not an exhaustive list, per se, but for persons not familiar with history of the canon and how it came to be, it would be interesting to know how you came to these dates. I'm always asking, "How do you know that? What is your source? What makes this claim any more or less valid than any other?" It's about attribution. Thank you!
Timeline is quite interesting to me. I imagined these writings to be much closer together in time and in fact closer to Jesus actual death and Resurrection.
I look forward to this feature and hope to improve my understanding of the NT.
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Looking forward to this.
Thank you for this. I’m looking forward to seeing how you develop the rest of the thread. I’m also curious as to the responses you will get as to the dating. I don’t disagree with any of your dates, but will say that I think most scholars still hold that Luke was written in the mid 80s CE. There’s a fast growing scholarship among those like Dr. Steve Mason, Dr. Marker, Dr. Robyn, Faith Walsh and others that place Luke/Acts in the early to mid second century. Even Bart Eman, who holds to the earlier dating will acknowledge the growing scholarship to put it in the second century.
For context, I'd like to know your sources for concluding the dates you've attributed to each of the NT books. Not an exhaustive list, per se, but for persons not familiar with history of the canon and how it came to be, it would be interesting to know how you came to these dates. I'm always asking, "How do you know that? What is your source? What makes this claim any more or less valid than any other?" It's about attribution. Thank you!
Timeline is quite interesting to me. I imagined these writings to be much closer together in time and in fact closer to Jesus actual death and Resurrection.
I look forward to this feature and hope to improve my understanding of the NT.