My Easter Blog Post: Dating The Gospels

[1Heidegger1!]

I shared my Easter Blog Post on Dating the Gospels! https://secularfrontier.infidels.org/2025/04/easter-post-dating-the-gospels/

 

[1Heidegger1!]

Part 2/2 of my Easter Post on New Testament Sources: https://secularfrontier.infidels.org/2025/04/easter-post-2-2-scribal-galilee-by-sarah-rollens/

 

[1Heidegger1!]

As is the case with new scholarship like Nina Livesey’s recent book on Paul’s letters as pseudonymous, it sometimes involves for the reader a back and forth with implications trying to appropriate the new materials. Here's where I'm at on dates: https://secularfrontier.infidels.or...nina-livesey-paul-and-robert-m-price-gospels/

 

[1Heidegger1!]

(Conclusion of my Easter Posts collection !) It’s a Secular Easter: Reading the New Testament From A Non-Superstitious Point of View! https://secularfrontier.infidels.or...ament-from-a-non-superstitious-point-of-view/

 

[Swammerdami]

As is the case with new scholarship like Nina Livesey’s recent book on Paul’s letters as pseudonymous, it sometimes involves for the reader a back and forth with implications trying to appropriate the new materials. Here's where I'm at on dates: https://secularfrontier.infidels.or...nina-livesey-paul-and-robert-m-price-gospels/

Am I correct that you place almost all Paul's writing in the 2nd century, and the Gospels even later than that? Whatever the circumstantial evidence for that might be, it necessitates a huge amount of special pleading to account for mentions of James the Brother. Does your hypothesis depend on some elaborate hoax?

 

[Swammerdami]

@1Heidegger1! -- I do hope for clarity about the Gospel dating.

As is the case with new scholarship like Nina Livesey’s recent book on Paul’s letters as pseudonymous, it sometimes involves for the reader a back and forth with implications trying to appropriate the new materials. Here's where I'm at on dates: https://secularfrontier.infidels.or...nina-livesey-paul-and-robert-m-price-gospels/

Am I correct that you place almost all Paul's writing in the 2nd century, and the Gospels even later than that? Whatever the circumstantial evidence for that might be, it necessitates a huge amount of special pleading to account for mentions of James the Brother. Does your hypothesis depend on some elaborate hoax?

 

[Swammerdami]

@1Heidegger1! -- I do hope for clarity about the Gospel dating.

As is the case with new scholarship like Nina Livesey’s recent book on Paul’s letters as pseudonymous, it sometimes involves for the reader a back and forth with implications trying to appropriate the new materials. Here's where I'm at on dates: https://secularfrontier.infidels.or...nina-livesey-paul-and-robert-m-price-gospels/

Am I correct that you place almost all Paul's writing in the 2nd century, and the Gospels even later than that? Whatever the circumstantial evidence for that might be, it necessitates a huge amount of special pleading to account for mentions of James the Brother. Does your hypothesis depend on some elaborate hoax?

Refusal to answer simple questions makes the "anti-Christian fictionalists" -- if that's what these are -- seem as ridiculous as Christians who wonder whether water flowed over the Earth's edges during the Great Flood.