Reply #389: I agree that the oral history that became the Gospels were not [View All]

[papau]

referenced as such by Paul - and that indeed they did not move from oral to written until well after Jesus's death.

Mark is usually dated before the fall of Jerusalem - so between 60 and 70 AD. The others are later. The dates of the rejected Gospels such as the story of boy Jesus throwing dirt into the air and it flying away as a bird are not known to me.

The oral tradition may - or may not - be a reasonable reason for not writing them down earlier - but James, Jesus's brother and leader of the Church in Jerusalem - treated the group as just one more sect of Jews and indeed worshiped at the Temple until they were tossed out by the Jewish "fundis" of their day. I suspect there was no need to write much down before 60AD.