how long was the bible written after jesus died. other day on the "view", rosie mentioned 200 years after...

Question

the topic was about the tomb/s possible being jesus, mary malagade (can't spell her name) and their son. anything rosie says, media goes crazy next day but haven't heard any yes or no since she made this comment i think in the beginning of the week. if this is true, i did not know this.

Answer 1

Unfortunately Rosie is neither a theologian, an anthropologist or a historian. She has heard the claim that ALL the Christian scriptures were written long after Jesus died and picked a number.

Pious believers will affirm that the entire New Testament was written by eyewitnesses, and that was the standard for inclusion, back in the days before documentary forensics. Most Bible critics have determined that the New Testament was composed, out of necessity, by members of Christian communities to preserve what might have otherwise faded from memory.

There was no intention in the earliest Church of writing a new volume of scripture. The Jewish scriptures were all there was because the world was not expected to last much longer. The first Christian "scriptures" were the letters of Paul, whose "Jesus" story consisted of the facts of his resurrection and ascension, period. No teachings, no travelling, no miracles, just "died and was raised". As the leaders of the Church died and were succeeded, Christians became concerned that their personal testimony would be lost. Biographies of Christ were composed from the stories shared among the communities. The first, Mark's gospel, was stark, frenetic and a little ominous. It was probably composed in the 60s, just before the Jewish revolt against Rome.

Matthew and Luke drew from another tradition to add to the story. Matthew presented Jesus as the Messiah, the fulfilment of Jewish prophecy, and manifested the issues arising in early Church government. Luke cast Jesus as the great healer, reconciler and sacrifice for ALL people, driven by the Spirit along with the Church. Both spoke of the destruction of the Temple, indicating that they probably wrote in the 70s.

John's gospel presents a very different chronology and portrait of Jesus. The issue of his day was Christ's divinity, and his theology shows a sophistication and maturity beyond that of the synoptics. It would have taken time and philosophical pressure (from Gnostics?) to produce such an outlook. So his gospel is dated anywhere from 90 - 150 CE. Was it the actual apostle John? If it was, the earlier date would still have made him very old. We have no way if proving whether it was or not.

Not all of Paul's letters were written by Paul, nor were they all written within a few years of each other. His earliest letters describe Jesus as "being raised" rather than rising. The divine attributes were not yet fully understood. Later epistles, such as the ones to Timothy and Titus show a preoccupation with doctrinal positions and church government that would not have happened during his missionary journeys. The political housekeeping addressed in Peter's letters show a definite stamp of a later date, possibly early 2nd Century.

The problems described in Revelation were very real to the Christians living under the emperor Domitian (rumored to be a reincarnation of Nero). He died in 96, so the book may date from that time.

We don't have sworn, notarized statements from the authors, so we have no way of knowing when each book was written. Skeptics will assume later dates, as late as the 2nd or even 3rd Century. Pious adherents will insist that everything was written within the lifetimes of the apostles. Most historical-critical analysts place them between the 50s and perhaps 120 CE, based on the content. But more precise dating is not likely to occur, barring some amazing discovery to come.

Answer 2

Did the early Christians have the Bible as we know it? No. The Bible as a whole was not compiled until the late 4th century and then it was compiled by a Catholic saint (St. Jerome) at the req
uest of a Catholic pope (St. Damasus I). ......[ compiled from 46 books ]

The Catholic Church was the first Christian denomination to commission a mass printing of the Bible by asking Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, to do so in 1447. Non-Catholic Christians may accuse the Catholic Church of not allowing the common people to read the Bible before the Reformation, but what good would it have done for the Catholic Church to widely distribute the Bible to "the masses" when over 90% of the common people were illiterate and couldn't read anyway? The Catholic Mass has always included Scriptural readings from both the Old and New Testaments and Catholic priests have always "preached" the written Word of God to the common people throughout history.


Do you have any idea ,how many Jesus Mary & Josephs there was after Jesus Christ rose from the dead. Every one that witness the events at the time approx 2000 yrs ago wanted to name their offspring these names!!!!!!However, the bones of Jesus will never be found.
He already ascended body & soul into heaven after his resurrection

Answer 3

The Old testiment was writen between 1500 BC and 400BC, it was most likely writen by Jewish Priest, King Solomon, and others. Some of the books are from the point of view of Moses.

The first official books of the new testiment were written 30 years after his death in about 27 AD. These include some of the letters from the Apostle Paul.

The Gospals were assempled most likely 20 or so years later by chruch leaders who had known Jesus in their youth.

John for example was very old and probuly used an aid to help him write down what he remembered.

Later, after Christianity was legalized in the early 300's, a councel was established to formalize the bible and reject gospals from the nostics (a tribe of people who wrote there own religion around the same time).

When Jesus was alive, many poeple (by the thousands) became followers are started there own churches, I think they mostly used the old testiments, as well as what is called the Q gosple for their worship. (the Q gosple was a collection of Jesus stories before the actauls Gosples were formalized.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Oh, yes; Rosie, that great theologian.
Rosie is misinformed.
The entire old testament was in place before Jesus.
The entire new testament was written during the lifetime of the apostles. Matthew and John were with Jesus. Mark knew Peter, and Luke knew Paul.
John penned the last book, Revelation, as an old man while he was in exile on the island of Patmos off Turkey.
The bible is made up of 66 books written by 40 authors over a period spanning about 1,500 years from start to finish.

Rosie needs to make sure her brain is loaded before she shoots off her mouth.

Answer 5

Rosie was lying, but what else is new. The earliest gospel was written about ten to fifteen years after Jesus ascended. The final book in the New Testament, Revelations, had the latest writing date. It was written in about 95 AD.

Answer 6

The 39 books of the Old Testament were written before Jesus was born.

The New Testament was probably written before 70 A.D. Only a few years after Jesus death on the cross.

Answer 7

Much of the Bible was written before Jesus, The Old Testament, and The New Testament was written between 41 A.D. to 98 A.D., all of the books were later compiled into the Bible as we know it later on.

Answer 8

The first book of the New Testament was written 40 to 50 years after Christ's birth (10 to 20 years after his death), and the last book was completed some 50 years after that.

The Old Testament was written over hundreds and hundreds of years by many different people.

While it might be a fair book of "general guidance", it is just plain nuts to believe it is the "inspired word of God" since SO many of the stories in the Bible are basically "rewrites" of earlier myths of civilizations tha Fundemental Christianity often denies even existed! The OT & NT themselves are also so full of errors & contradictions it is impressive that anyone takes them seriously...

Answer 9

I believe the earliest "Book" of the New Testament (Book of Mark) was found to be written approximately 40 years after Jesus died; however, the letters from Paul, Peter, etc. date back to shortly after Jesus' death since they were allegedly written by the actual followers of Jesus.

Answer 10

yes I watched that show and elisabeth was standing up for the resurrection and said the proof for it was the gospel accounts and it was joy who said wasn't the bible written 200 years after the fact. Anyways no the bible scholars note it from the 50's-90's anywhere in that time frame... early christian writings which quote the gospels and writings of the bible which we have abtainted are as early as 110 (1 clement) or the didache.