In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, in the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechari′ah in the wilderness (Luke 3:1-2) Given the foregoing considerations, it should come as little surprise that the only two book-length scholarly treatments of the dating of the books of the New Testament—John A.T. Robinson’s Redating the New Testament (1976) and Jonathan Bernier’s Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament (2022)—both conclude that all four Gospels were written before 70 A.D. For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.
Author: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
Published at: 2025-12-24 20:22:58
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