Originally posted by shunyadragon
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The scholarly consensus does NOT agree with this view of yours, although I see you trying to back track. My view does not disagree with the consensus, although I do account for an important scholar recently arguing for Paul's first letter being about 10 years earlier than the consensus, so for his sake, I extended the range earlier. I date the gospel of Mark roughly between 70-75, which is the later range of the consensus, not earlier. I do not think we can precisely define the date of Jesus' death at 30 CE. The arguments that do so assume too much historical detail from one or another of the gospel accounts than I think is warranted so I also date the death of Jesus with a range, ie, as roughly 30-35 CE, thus the range for the gospel of Mark is about 40 years after that range.
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