This is a must-see! Check it out!
One of the many difficulties the New Testament presents for scholars is dating and sequencing the books in order. Some of the books were written anonymously and did not specify an author. Dating of documents was also not undertaken. Using a range of textual clues, scholars have developed approximate dates for the books. While timelines can be found from a number of sources, I had trouble finding any that were annotated with other significant events of the period. Thus, the following timeline, which combines information from several resources.
My hope is that this may serve as a fairly rich “info-graphic” to help outline the development of Christology and “historical” information about Jesus as contained in the gospels. (please do advise if you find any errors)
The core timeline – which consisted of only the books and their dates – was drawn from Raymond E. Brown’s Introduction to the New Testament (RC)…
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Nate, have you read about this ? Very interesting !
http://uk.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm
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I have. You’re right, it’s very interesting. So far, I’ve heard a lot of skepticism from just about every corner, but I’m very curious to see where it eventually lands.
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Reblogged this on Left Christianity.
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Christians will never accept Atwill’s theory (above link). That’s a given. Yet, it will be interesting to see how far it goes in the secular world.
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@Nan…
My thoughts exactly.
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@ Nate: Great find! The man does good work, I’ll likely steal a great deal from him!:-)
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@Nate – this is an awesome graphic! I will use this a lot as a reference.
@Ken – you may want to check this out:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/4664
Richard Carrier doesn’t have too many good things to say about Atwill. If you do just a little bit of searching it won’t be hard to find several atheist bloggers who feel the same way.
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Thanks Howie ! I am not endorsing Atwill. I was simply wondering if anyone had read the article about him. I will check the link out you provided. Thanks again !
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