RE: Help! Joseph of Arimathea.
May 19, 2012 at 1:39 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2012 at 1:39 am by Polaris.)
(May 19, 2012 at 1:36 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 19, 2012 at 1:33 am)Polaris Wrote: I know. I was hoping it would get by because I don't feel like wasting my time going through all the old fragments.
OK.... so what have you got? Nothing? As far as I'm aware, the earliest accepted manuscripts of the canonical gospels date to c.a. 200-250CE.
I really only accept the Gospel that the British paid 14 million dated just before the end of the 7th century as being the first since it is complete, but then again that might be too harsh since that is the first complete copy found in Europe.
(May 19, 2012 at 1:38 am)Justtristo Wrote:(May 18, 2012 at 11:44 pm)Polaris Wrote: Except that Josephus did not release his first commentary on that part of history until 93/94 CE while it is said the latest Mark was written was 70 CE (it was most likely closer to 40-50 CE...much of the Bible was written prior to 67 CE). Even his commentaries on the Jewish Wars were not until 75 CE.
Plenty of critical scholars have proposed a date for the writing of the gospel of Mark to after the Bar Kochba revolt (around 140 AD).
Which scholars?
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
