(October 17, 2013 at 11:50 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:70's fine. People would have recognized erroneous references to rulers and censuses.(October 17, 2013 at 11:19 am)John V Wrote: The early camp thinks Luke was written ~60-65, and the late camp ~80-90. Plenty of people would have spotted a false claim of less than a century prior.
The "early camp" is silly. Real scholars put the date of Mark around 70 CE, as determined by its references in chapter 13.
Quote:But this is beside my point. I said NT, not individual Gospels.Yes, without reason - other than to falsely put the books under consideration centuries out.