The Christian Gospels
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The Christian Bible has been a mainstay in society for the past two thousand years. At the heart of this ancient work, one finds the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These Gospels serve as a religious foundation for Christianity as well as a historical record of the time. Faithful follower ....
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.... terms, this would explain the similarity in the sayings and teachings that appear throughout all the Gospels, both Biblical and Gnostic. Together, these two beliefs form a basis for a number of new theories about how the Gospels were written.
All the Gospels were written after the Roman sack of Jerusalem in 70A.D. The first to be written was the Gospel of Mark around 75A.D. This work was intended for the Jewish audience of Judea, which had just gone through a bloody war with the Roman Emp ....
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