Re: Wiki EarlyChristian writings Missing from our Forum'sWeb
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:58 am
HI DCH,DCHindley wrote:
There are authors of original material and there are editors of sources. Something like parts of the T12P are found among the DSS, but not anything like what Christians were preserving. The T12P may utilize Jewish materials, but has certainly given them Christian perspective. I do not think that anything like the Testament of Adam was found among the DSS, so it is almost certainly a Christian composition.
In this thread I am trying to establish the earliest possible date. So its not not an issue of thinking along the line of "Well, it should be so, so it must have been so."
It's an issue of thinking "it reasonably could have been so, so this is a possible date".
I doubt that it's almost certain that if some writing is not found in the DSS it couldn't have been Jewish and must have been christian.
1. I am open to the idea it was originally NonChristian jewish but with christian additions. Notice how much longer version a is than version b. There probably could be major interpolation and addition.
2. If it was christian, it doesn't have to be written after the whole NT was completed, because it could use oral traditions or else books or fragment colluquys from before the completion.
3. nor am I totally sure the whole NT was basically completed after 100 ad.
So there are too many unknowns there for me to be certain it was made, minus interpolations, after 100 ad.