"The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney
"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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Quote for the win... well that is how modern news would sound bite it. ;)
More seriously...There's really no reason to believe any Gospel, even Apophycal, was written later than 200 AD.
The later the writings the less trusting of the source. But why draw the line at 200AD not 150/100/50?
What is the reasoning for the reason?
ie Ghost writer needs a person who was there at the time as a adult, and currently has no dementia or history of hallucination. That would mean roughly speaking up to 50 years after the event one could have a large selection of eyewitness accounts. At 70 years after the events one might find a 20 year old who saw it. At 100 years the only eyewitness accounts would likely be from children. At 150 years it would have to have been a very long lived eyewitness.
Last edited by Papewaio; 10-29-2009 at 05:00.
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