If you placed the New Testament books in chronological order, First written to Last, what are the first 5?

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Please explain how you got your information, too, please.

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Folks are aware that the NEW Testament does not contain the Torah or Job. That's the part that, in traditional ordering, starts with Matthew.

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Answer 1

Galations by Paul- had to be written after events in Gal.2:1-14
Several theories but written around AD 57/58
James by James-written after AD 44
1 Thess by Paul- It is included among Paul's letters in the
earliest list of NT books, the Muratorian Canon-AD 170
2 Thess by Paul- Named in earliest extant lists of the NT
canon. Known by Polycarp AD 150 and Justin Martyr
AD 150 in Dialogue With Trypho 32;110 mentions the
"man of sin" as if making reference to Paul's prophesy
in 2 Thess 2:3/
1 Corinth by Paul- written from Ephesis (1 Corinth 16:8)
where Paul was for 3 years. (Acts 20:31) and the chief center of his activities during his 3rd journey. (Acts 19;20:1) He was about to depart for Greece and Macedonia when the letter was written, but hoped to remain at Ephesus "until Pentecost" (1 Cor. 16:5-8) However circumstances hastened his departure (Acts 19:21 to 20:3). This makes the date of the letter in the spring of AD 57.

Answer 2

The same way it is in the Bible, The 4 Gospels (the order doesn't matter sine they are all different accounts of the same events), then Acts. The whole New Testaments mentions Jesus, and since He only appears in the Gospels, they much come first. Revelation was written by a man who was exiled for being Christian, and the religion wasn't outlawed until later, so that wouldn't be it. Acts would come first of the others, because it has all of the apostles being given their linguistic powers so they could go out and be missionaries. If they could only speak Hebrew and Aramaic as before, they couldn't be talking to the Greeks like they did in the later books.

Answer 3

Drat. I have a book documenting the New Testament Books, but it seems to have walked away for the moment.
But I'm pretty sure it's the 4 Gospels and Acts. Of course, Paul may have written any number of Epistles before the Gospels went from word of mouth to print. Regardless, they were all written down and vetted by eyewitnesses who SAW the events described, so I'm not worried about their provenance.

Answer 4

They would have been Paul's letters: Paul died before the Gospels were written (with the possible exception of Mark, but that's a matter of some debate).

The authorship of James is a matter of some debate. However it seems to be more recent than Paul's Epistle to the Romans, as it seems to discuss and clarify some of the themes.

Source: Wikipedia, of course!

Answer 5

i`m not sure about all 5 but i read in a reference that Job is the oldest.

Answer 6

What the hell is with the symbols?