When Was The New Testament Written?

[Michael_Callen (Herculean Skeptic)]

@John_Dalton

The new religion was already in existence when this stuff was being written.

@John_Harshman

I believe that there was a core around which many legends accumulated because they made the story better, i.e. more fit to the purpose of the writers.

Can you two clarify and ensure that we’re on the same page? There was a religion that we’ll call Christianity, that existed shortly after (maybe within a year or two of the death of Christ.)

When were the “core documents” written? The earliest forms of the NT books we see now?