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The Date of Mark’s Gospel: Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book argues that Mark’s gospel was not written as late as c. 65–75 CE, but dates from sometime between the late 30’s and early 40’s CE. It challenges the use of the external evidence (such as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria) often used for dating Mark, relying instead on internal evidence from the gospel itself. James Crossley also questions the view that Mark 13 reflects the Jewish war,...

to erect his statue in the Jerusalem Temple. The Jewish reaction to Caligula echoes the reactions of Jews under Antiochus. As Grabbe comments on Caligula’s attempt to erect his statue in the Temple, ‘Had he succeeded, his action would have been the equivalent of the destruction under Antiochus IV; only its failure has kept it from full notoriety’.33 There should be no surprise that there are distinct echoes of the Maccabean crisis in Josephus’ and Philo’s retelling of the Caligula crisis aside from
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