I know that the Jewish faith believes in the Old Testament and does not consider the New Testament valid. How long after the Old Testament was the New Testament written?
2007-03-09 02:54:58 · 17 answers · asked by millajovovichsboyfriend 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-09 03:24:44 · update #1
Between the Testaments was a 400 year "silent period". Then The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. The Holy Spirit visited the Apostles and Peter preached the sermon at Pentecost beginning the Lord's Church at that time (about 33AD). The First writings were thought to be about 50 AD. The last was John's writing of Revelation about 100AD from the Isle of Patmos as he was held prisoner by the Roman Soldiers. I hope that this is some help. Have a great day!
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2007-03-09 03:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by Eds 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish faith believes in the Torah, which is a selection of certain books from the Old Testament. I think it was about 50-200 years between the NT and the OT. I'd have to check though.
2007-03-09 10:58:51 · answer #2 · answered by GLSigma3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was 400 years of silence. Then Jesus started to work. The New Testament is written and collected within less that 100 years from the birth of Jesus.
2007-03-09 13:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 500 years for the books everyone agrees upon. There is also a body of work known as the Apocrypha that appears mostly in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles, consisting of such books as Wisdom, Tobit, Judith, etc. These works could have been written any time between about 400 BCE and the early years C.E.
2007-03-09 11:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the various books of the old testament were written over a long period, so it's hard to be specific, but certainly hundreds of years later, at the very least.
2007-03-09 10:58:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's generally agreed that Malachi was among the last books of the OT to be written, in around 400 BC or so.
The earliest books in the NT were the various Epistles, written around 50 AD.
So: about 450 years.
2007-03-09 11:03:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was written after the coming of Jesus, about 400 years after the Old Testament, if memory serves.
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2007-03-09 10:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 600-700 years. Approximately.
2007-03-09 15:35:15 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book of "Sirach" which is in the Catholic Bible and is not considered by the jews as authentic, although it is - as discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls and from Archeological finds at Masada in 1964, was translated by the grandson of "Ben Sira" in or around the year 190 b.c., and the book of "Maccabees" was written around 110 b.c. The earliest recorded record of any of the gospels or epistles are about 40-45 a.d. so that give you, your timeline.
2007-03-09 11:04:53 · answer #9 · answered by keeleychristian 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a 400 year period of silence between the testaments.
The earliest manuscript of the NT I think is Mark.
2007-03-09 10:58:51 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋