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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,...

The earliest references to Mark’s gospel in the Patristic period are to the present day regarded as some of the most important pieces of evidence for dating the second gospel. It is fair to say that most scholars impressed by such evidence, particularly that of Irenaeus, use it to date Mark sometime after 64 CE. However some of the evidence from the early church is ambiguous and two or maybe even three early views appear to have existed which has led to a minority
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