Towards Understanding Revelation

Tag: Dating the Gospels

  • 4/16/25 DATING THE GOSPELS, PART 4: THE BOOK OF MARK

    We’re starting again with Harnack’s 1911 book called THE DATE OF THE ACTS AND OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS.  He begins by calling on Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918, German biblical scholar) to support his statement that Mark 13 indicates that the book must have been written before 70 AD. I find this interesting because he did not…

  • 2/21/25 DATING THE GOSPELS, PART 1

    I don’t know about you, but I’ve often wondered how long it took for the authors of the Gospels to actually write down what they had learned. I’ve also wondered how the “experts” figured out the dating of the Gospels, after all, not one of the four Gospel writers dated his work.  Well, I’ve just…