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Kat:

A date was added; Pentecost, falls on the tenth day after Ascension, 30 C.E.

If anyone has thought of an important date that should be added. let me know.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Kat:

I wanted to add the dates of the writing of the books of the New testament on the timeline. But dates in my searches were all over the place, with broad estimates. So I decided to use one source to have some degree of consistency. So this can give you some idea of when they may have been written. This was in no way intended for disputing who the writers may have been.


Matthew--
Traditionally ascribed to Matthew the Evangelist, a tax collector who became an Apostle of Jesus. The majority of scholars date the gospel between the years 70C.E. and 100C.E. A minority argue for an even earlier date and favor the years 40–45C.E.

Mark--
The author Mark (the traveling companion of Paul), the apostle of Christ, and the interpreter of Peter. Written in Rome, (original ending apparently lost but added c.400). Most scholars date the gospel between 65-70C.E.

Luke--
Written by Luke (a companion of Paul). Paul described Luke as “the beloved physican,” and scholars have long found evidence of technical medical terminology used in the book. While some scholars argue for a pre-70 date for its writing, most scholars place the date 80-90C.E.

John--
John the Divine and Son of Zebedee, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. The book includes a substantial amount of material that Jesus shared with the disciples only. There are scholars who are of the opinion that John was composed in stages (probably two or three), beginning at an unknown time (50-70?) and culminating in a final text around 95-100C.E.

Acts--
The preface of Acts explicitly references "my former book" about the life of Jesus— we know as the Gospel of Luke. The consensus of scholarship holds that the author was an educated Greek Gentile man writing for an audience of Gentile Christians. Conservative Christian scholars believes the book was written between 60-62, liberal scholarship tends to put it at somewhere between 85 and 100C.E.

Romans--
Is one of the letters of Apostle Paul. It seems to have been composed when Paul was at the close of his second visit to Greece, probably written at Corinth early in 58C.E.

1 Corinthians & 2 Corinthians--
Paul’s letters to the Corinthians church, he was the founder of the church in Corinth, spending more than a year there. This letters was written, around 55C.E.

Galatians--
A letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. Paul's letter could have been written on his first missionary journey in southern Galatia quite early, perhaps in 48 or 49. Or during his second missionary journey and would have been written after the Council of Jerusalem, 57-58C.E.

Ephesians--
Its writer Paul remained in Ephesus "three years," because it was the largest city in Roman Asia and from which the Gospel spread abroad. Paul is traditionally supposed to have written the letter while he was imprisoned in Rome around 63C.E.

Philippians--
This letter was written in expression of Paul's gratitude to the Philippians for their consistent support of his ministry, both materially and spiritually. The letter was clearly written during one of Paul's imprisonments, probably at Rome in the early 60sC.E.

Colossians--
Traditionally this book is believed to be written primarily by the Apostle Paul and also attributed to his disciple Timothy and Silas, to the church in Colossae. Written from Ephesus its date is estimated to be anywhere from the mid 50s to as late as 62C.E.

1 Thessalonians--
Primarily Paul, also Timothy and silas to the Christian church at Thessalonika (modern Salonica, Greece), probably written at Corinth in approximately 51-52C.E.

2 Thessalonians--
Paul's Second (follow-up) epistle to the Thessalonians coming shortly after 1 Thessalonians, in the later 50sC.E.

1 Timothy--
Paul is traditionally recognized as the author and Timothy was much loved by Paul, who was his mentor. First of the pastoral epistles, it was most likely written toward the end of Paul's ministry, 62-67C.E.

2 Timothy--
Second Pastoral Epistles attributed to Paul. It is believed to have been written during Paul's Roman imprisonment, near the end of his life sometime in 67C.E.

Titus--
The last of the pastoral Epistles, a letter from Paul to his spiritual son Titus. According to the superscription of this epistle Paul was in Epirus from which place he wrote to Titus, about 66 or 67C.E.

Philemon--
The shortest of Paul's letters, consisting of only 335 words in the original Greek text, and 25 verses in modern English translations. Estimates for the letters date range from the mid 50s early 60sC.E.

Hebrews--
Though traditionally credited to the Apostle Paul, the letter is anonymous. Though far from certain Hebrews has been dated to shortly after the Pauline epistles were collected and began to circulate 95C.E.

James--
The author identifies himself as James, traditionally understood as James the Just, the brother of Jesus. The writing of the epistle would be Jerusalem, where James was residing before his martyrdom in 62C.E.

1 Peter--
The author identifies himself in the opening verse as "Peter, an apostle of Jesus," the date of this epistle is probably between 60-64C.E.

2 Peter--
This epistle presciently declares that it is written shortly before the apostle's death, a probable date prior to Peter's death in 65-67C.E.

1 John--
These epistles (1,2 and 3) are traditionally held to have been written by Apostle John, also known as John the son of Zebedee, probably at Ephesus when the writer was in advanced age. It likely was written in Ephesus about 90-110C.E.

2 John--
The shortest book of the Bible, in terms of verses (13), and the second shortest in terms of words. The latest it could have been written was 117C.E.

3 John--
Its second-shortest book by number of verses, and its shortest in regard to number of words. A relatively late work, for John was believed to have lived a very long life, and was also the youngest of the original disciples of Jesus. Early estimates have the book at around 90 and later ones at no later than 120C.E.

Jude--
The epistle identifies itself as being written by "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James." If this is James the Just, this Jude would be Jesus' own brother or half brother Judah, but there is debate if it might be "Judah Jacobi" also called Thaddeus. It is a brief book of only a single chapter with 25 verses. Many date it between 66 to 90C.E.

Revelation--
The Revelation of Jesus Christ… unto His servant John. John was exiled on Patmos in the Aegean archipelago during the reign of Emperor Domitian, and wrote the Book of Revelation there. Some contend for an early date for its writing during the reign of Nero, 68 or 69, others place it near the very end of Domitian's reign, around 95 or 96C.E.

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