Bart Ehrman Dating The Gospels. Dating the gospels is somewhere between an art and a bad joke. Craig fields questions from around the world including a listener in spain.

Again, this would place the gospels at least within the first century ad. Questions on the virgin birth, bart ehrman, and dating the gospels. Indeed bart ehrman states that “most scholars” [14] agree on a first century dating of the four gospels.

The simple fact of the matter is that nobody really knows when the gospels were written, and the 70 ad “early date” is attributable to nothing more than the idea that jesus could not have predicted the destruction of the temple.

Why did you say that bart ehrman misrepresented what scholars say about the new testament dating of the gospels? Brown’s international version of an introduction to the new testament are great resources for answering questions on dating the synoptic gospels, paul's epistles, and more. When visiting with dan wallace, greg koukl and i asked him about the skepticism on the part of people like bart ehrman related to early dating. Jesus was crucified in 30 ad and, according to ehrman, the first gospel to be written down, mark, was not written until around 70 ad.