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According to Christian tradition, Jesus was crucified either 30 or 33 CE, yet the first gospel, Mark's Gospel, was not written until approximately 70 CE, and the other New Testament gospels were written much later.
The most widely quoted Christian explanation is probably that the reason the gospels were not written earlier was that the stories were carried in the heads of the various disciples. On this view, the gospels began to be written down when the disciples were becoming old and there was a need to commit the story of Jesus to paper before the disciples had died. At a time when few commoners lived beyond 50 years old, this risk would have been becoming acute because most or all of the surviving disciples would have been well over that age when even the first gospel was written.
At the other end of the spectrum is the view that the author of Mark's Gospel actually invented the person of Jesus of Nazareth. On this view, 'Mark' copied the names of some key people and some facts from the epistles of Paul and created a story that parallels the Homeric epics. Denis R MacDonald points to mimesis 'flags' that the author seems to have placed in Mark in order to point the alert reader to an appropriate passage in the Iliad or the Odyssey. Some scholars say that Paul seems to have been unaware that Jesus was a human who lived and died in Palestine in the recent past. Based on his episltes, Paul might have seen Jesus as a purely spiritual person or someone who had lived in the indeterminate past. If Jesus of Nazareth was a literary invention, the author of Mark might have been motivated to write the Gospel by the events surrounding the First Roman-Jewish War and the impending doom that he foresaw.
A centrist view is that there really was a preacher, Jesus of Nazareth, who really did live in Palestine in the first century, but that he did not perform miracles and was probably not crucified. On this view, the story of Jesus of Nazareth became embellished over time, until Mark wrote down what he had learnt form various oral sources.
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