I've been enjoying Mark Goodacre's series The Dating Game about determining dates for the writing of the New Testament. One of the main aims of this series was for Mark to prep. his paper for this year's SBL conference "Dating the Crucial Sources for Early Christianity". Having drawn the series to a close he has now posted the full paper online. There are a few places I'd like to see Mark go into more detail, not least the other reasons for dating Thomas as later than the synoptic gospels, but it's a great introduction to a subject I've always found rather interesting.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Mark Goodacre on Dating the New Testament
I've been enjoying Mark Goodacre's series The Dating Game about determining dates for the writing of the New Testament. One of the main aims of this series was for Mark to prep. his paper for this year's SBL conference "Dating the Crucial Sources for Early Christianity". Having drawn the series to a close he has now posted the full paper online. There are a few places I'd like to see Mark go into more detail, not least the other reasons for dating Thomas as later than the synoptic gospels, but it's a great introduction to a subject I've always found rather interesting.
Thanks, Matt. Yes, there are a few places I'd like to go into more detail too! I can oblige you before too long with Thomas, because I have a fair bit in a book I am writing on Thomas that concerns that topic.
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ReplyDeleteHave you seen Adam's Apples?
Thanks Mark - I've been looking forward to that for a while.
ReplyDeleteNT - Thanks for adding me to your Biblioblogs list. Unfortunately, I've not seen "Adam's Apples" though I did note your review the other day and have been meaning to post about it when I got a moment.
It's a shame I didn't read it a few months ago, though, as my Through the Bible in Five and a Half Years course covered Job back in August. I had to make do with a clip from South Park instead.
Matt