If Jesus was alive like 30 AD, why were books written about Him in 60 AD and not sooner?

Question

I wonder why it took so long.

Answer 1

You've never worked in publishing, have you?

Answer 2

The answer to this really sin;t that difficult to see. First of all, 30 years is not so long compared to how old the Church is. Secondly, the Church started teaching from the very beginning, and they did this through mostly oral teaching. Some went as far as writing letters to the established churches throughout the world, which is why we have Paul's letters, as well as Peter, James and Jude. After the Church had been teaching for some time different individuals decided to write the Gospels (both the 4 gospels of Matthew Mark Luke and John, and other non -canonical ones as well). There was no need for these gospels because they had the oral teachings of the apostles and co. In their gatherings, they would read scripture mostly OT, but occasionally one of the letters, then celebrate the Eucharist. Much like our current gatherings almost 2000 years later.

Answer 3

You have to remember that back then, it was NOT easy to acquire paper and pens. It's not like they could go down to the nearest supermarket and pick up a packet of paper and a twelve-pack of Bic pens.
Not only that, but the primary source of information was from word of mouth. Almost all news was spread by word of mouth.

Only things which were considered VERY important were written down, and even when they WERE written, it usually wasn't until at least twenty to fifty years after the fact. Was Alexander an important historical figure? Yes, and yet HIS history wasn't written down until five hundred years after his death.

Very good question by the way, I hope my answer helped.

Answer 4

To the best of my knowledge the apostles weren't big on writing they were into preaching and only to fellow Jews. You have to realize that during his ministry Jesus was a reform rabbi. His message was aimed at reforming an established faith. After his "death" there were at minimum 12 at least slightly different ideas about how to spread the teachings which were all spoken rather than written down. Saul of Tarsus, a hellenized Jew who never actually met Jesus in the flesh or heard him speak live was one of the first alleged followers of the Christ to really write much down. 60 to a hundred years after the fact the Church collected all the pertinent manuscripts they could find and codified them into a cohesive library leaving out the parts that didn't fit their agenda like the Apocrypha and Nag Hammadi library. If there's any of those original scraps still in existence they're hidden deep in the Vatican archive hopefully in weather proof storage.

Answer 5

There are plenty of good answers already, but another matter to consider is that up through 60 AD, most of the people who knew Jesus personally were still alive and telling his story in person.
Once they started dying, however, those that remained had to write it down so the story wouldn't be lost to posterity or garbled by second-hand retellings.

Answer 6

That is a good question, but if you look into works produced in antiquity, about alexander the great and so forth (written almost 500 years after his reign which are considered historic fact), you find out that the books about jesus were reletively written extremely soon after the fact. remember that 60AD society was oral, paper was not produced in great quantity, orating the story would have been much more sensible rather than writing it on paper.

Answer 7

60 AD is still debeatable.

So far ( as I know ) oldest books written was written 400 AD.

Paper was expensive are no education are a bit ridicilus argument.

Jesus had done so many mircales ( according to Bibble ), like feeding so many thousands, blind to see. These are extraordinary , so extraordinary news like this definately attract lot of historical writter to spent money.

And there was none or little write up about Jesus other from Bibble.

So guess.

Answer 8

The simple answer is it didn't.

The first true gospels, such as Thomas, Philip and others were produced from 40 CE.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/bible_of_god.htm

Jesus of course was crucified in 36 CE, the same year Pilate was recalled to Rome for the incident.

But the false gospels, the heretical texts created by Paul of Tarsus and the High Priests designed to subvert the teachings of Jesus weren't produced in meaningful numbers till at least 55CE to 60CE.

So the gap is yet another example of the inconsistencies within the religion of Paul. To this day, most christian apologists, pr agents and spin doctors refuse to accept the oldest writings of Thomas etc as "legitimate"...

Answer 9

When Jesus was not yet born as a man , He was existing already with God the Father, as it was written in the Old Testament of the bible. in Genesis Chapter.1 He was with God, the father when everything was created.
And it was on the prophecy that Jesus be born from a virgin in the person of Mary even before he was born. If you are a reader of the bible Old Testament and th4e New Testament, you know .the answer to your question.
jtm

Answer 10

I think it is because the apostles were too busy trying to spread the word and running away from people that were trying to kill them.

Also, back in those days it was real expensive to have a manuscript printed (not printed like today, it would have been written by hand). It would have had to be printed on animal hyde or something like that. You had to have alot of money, so I think when they started to get things like this, they were able to have these books made.

Answer 11

Who said that they were written in 60AD?
James, his brother wrote his letter it long after the death. Matthew was also one of the twelve who lived with him, so his gospel was written not long after the death - it has really annoyed a lot of scholars and atheists that a piece of parchment from 40ad was discovered (in an Egyptian mask) with a sample of a gospel written on it.
There is a math in Revelation that tells us that it was written in 33AD too, by John.

The other stuff was written later, Paul the false apostle and roman hero wrote his letters to assimilate the messianic jewish message with the roman and Greek religions to create Christianity along with his friend Luke (they penned the Pauline epistles, the Petrine epistles, Hebrews, Luke s gospel and acts) and I would imagine that the writings named after John were by Hellenic Pharisees attempting to separate the jews from their messiah by adapting him to the pagan christ figure that Paul was peddling. Mark is an abridged gnostic version of Matthews gospel (Gnostics had copy edited Matthew, and later the gnostic editions were deleted, but they still exist within the freemasonic secret gospel of Mark), so effectively the three genuine books of the New Testament (actually just a continuation of the tanakh, there should be no separation) are MATTHEW, JAMES AND REVELATION and they were all written in the 4th decade of the first century, not long after Jesus (Yeshua) died and resurrected, and we don t know when Paul came on the scene though he was writing seemingly before and after the destruction of the temple and he attempted to kill James by throwing him down the temple steps, such a wonderful figurehead of Christianity huh?