Saturday, July 13, 2019

Evidence for Early Dates for Gospels

Early dates for the gospels? What this link is claiming is that there is a document family, f35, which goes back to the 3rd century AD. None of the documents that old are complete so we can't tell if they had colophons at the end- we just have fragments and scraps from the documents that old. But  "descendants" of that document "family" from the 12th or 13th century do have colophons at the end. At least half of them do. And these complete documents with colophons at the end  claim that "this gospel was first released X years after the ascension of Christ". And those dates are quite early.  If indeed the complete documents we have from the 13th century were faithfully copying the colophons from earlier documents then it appears that the so-called "synoptic" gospels were released within 15 years after the Resurrection. Read about it here.


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