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Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament: The Evidence for Early Composition is unavailable, but you can change that!

This paradigm-shifting study is the first book-length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over 40 years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed 20 to 30 years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how...

Through the work of synchronization, chapter 1 concluded that Acts was written ca. 62 and the Synoptic Gospels prior to that date, with Matthew’s Gospel likely written before Luke’s, and Mark’s Gospel prior to Matthew’s. The aim of this chapter is to establish the most probable dates for the Synoptic tradition more precisely, via the work of contextualization and authorial biography.1 This chapter argues that Mark’s Gospel was written no earlier than 42
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