Ken,Ken Olson wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:12 pm Yes, Stuart said Asia Minor. I just wanted to clarify that you meant not Syria when you said that. I know many think some of the Pauline epistles and the Johannine literature (Revelation almost certainly) were written in Asia Minor. Matthew and Luke are frequently placed in Antioch (but it would seem difficult to imagine their independence if they both were).
But sorry to distract from the topic of Zebedee/Sabazios.
I would not be willing to stand on any specific location, only general. But if you put a gun to my head, I would speculate (key word "speculate", not fact, not certain) that the Marcionite version of Luke was written somewhere in Asia. Matthew was probably written in Bithynia, as this seems to have been the Petrine stronghold. The first version of John was also likely from Asia. Asia in particular was a battle ground between the Pauline and Johannine sects. Mark I suspect was written in Patras, a Greek city with heavy Roman/Latin influence, on the west coast of Greece, but still within reach of Corinth. The Pauline letter addresses suggest Greece and Asia Minor. 1 Peter somewhere ii that region, Bithynia.
Again this is a digression, and not something I'll vigorously defend here. A lot of it is my best guess, nothing more.