how many years after jesus death was the bible written?

Question

i know its hundreds but not sure how many

fireball - im not talking about your mid life crisis here

Answer 1

It wasn't hundreds.Craig L. Bloomberg PHD. said "... Let's go back to the dating of the Gospels,... "looking at the book of Acts, which was written by Luke... Acts ends apparently unfinished _ Paul is a central figure of the book, and he's under house arrest in Rome. With that the book abruptly halts. What happens to Paul? We don't find out from Acts, probably because the book was written before Paul was put to death."
"That means Acts cannot be dated any later than A.D. 62 Having established that, we can move backward from there. Since Acts is the second of a two part work, we know the first part - the gospel of Luke must have been written earlier than that.. And since Luke incorporates part of the Gospel of Mark, that means Mark is even earlier.
If you allow maybe a year for each of those, you end up with Mark written no later than about A.D. 60, maybe even the late 50's. If Jesus was put to death in A.D. 30 or 33, we're talking about a maximum gap of 30 years or so.

Answer 2

Nick -
What was that rude comment to Fireball about?

Jesus quoted from the Old Testament.
So it was not like you assume:
"i know its hundreds but not sure how many".

Some of it was written before Jesus Christ's time and some was after. Do the research, and while you are at it, read and study the Bible itself. It contains the answers you are looking for.
-Redeemed

Answer 3

From my research into the oragins of christianity, I have managed to establish that Paul came on the scene between the years 58-60 AD, and that the earliest piece of manucript of the new testament is from btween years110-120AD and are written in Greek, hence most likely part of the Paulian religion. The first universe copy of the new testerment was compiled by Augustine (in latin) around 420 AD although the letters of Peter and James were not added until much later. More recently copies of part of the gospel of Mark have been found dating back to the year135. It is hoped that other pieces of early christian documents will be found amung the manuscript currently being examined at the british musium. It was one of the greatest crimes against humanity when the Alexandrian libary was burnt down, as translations of the writings within the masks of the Egyptian tombs imply that 20 thousand years of manuscripts, covering the then known extent of civilization were being housed there.. There are many early documents on christianity locked away from us in the vatican. One can only presume that they have something to hide as access to them is denide. I CAN TELL YOU THOUGH THERE ARE ACTUALLY 3 LETTERS TO THE CORINTHIANS!

Answer 4

Galatians and James were written 10-20 years after. The New Testament was completed 60-70 years after his crucifixion.

Since the latest estimates of the date of "the Rylands papyrus fragment of John" put it around 150 with more probable estimates at around 125, we have evidence that it was already in distribution long before the third century compilations were undertaken to combine the individual letters into a single book.

The liberal claims that deny all prophecy and miracles and assert that the documents were all written much later are in direct conflict with the writings of numerous early Christians (and their Non-Christian opponents) who knew and quoted from the various letters which were later combined and called "the New Testament."

Papias and Polycarp, both of whom had been young disciples of the elderly apostle John, testify in their writings from the first half of the second century (110-140 is the date range for both) of several letters now included in the New Testament. These had to have been written by the end of the first century for them to have known and quoted by these writers.

Answer 5

Well, you have to remember that the bible is not ONE book. It is a collection of 66 little books. The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament to some) were written long before Jesus' birth. The Christian Greek Scriptures (New Testament to some) were written not long after his death. Matthew for instance completed his gospel in 41CE, just about 8 years after Jesus' death. John, the last of the Apostle to die, wrote Revelation in 96CE.

Answer 6

Most (the Hebrew Scriptures) where written before he was born. If you mean the New Testament, Jesus dies around 30 AD. Mark is attributed to 50 AD, Matthew and Luke/Acts 70AD and John, Revelatation 90 AD. The letters were written between 35 and 70 AD for the most part.

AS for joined into one bible - around the middle of the 4th century

Answer 7

The science of textual criticism suggests between 40-100 A.D.
This is the method whereby the authenticity of a text is verified by the amount of copies of the original.
For example, the earliest known copy of the new testament is 130 A.D. with 5,000 Greek, 10,000 Latin and 9,300 other contemporaneous copies.

Answer 8

Scholars think that the First gospel was written about 40 years after the crucifiction. Remember the History of Alexander the Great was written over 400 years after his death.

Answer 9

My understanding is that it was written between 20 and 400 years after the death of Christ.

Answer 10

The Bible, or Torah as it is correctly called in Hebrew is the original Jewish Holy Book and was written about 2500 to 3000 years BEFORE Christ....
The New Testament, which is an addition to the Torah, not sanctioned by the Jewish religion was written about 300 years after Jesus died....and it is not a complete record of the writings, it is a choice compilation of Christ and post Christ writings whose accuracy are suspect.