Secret Alias wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:57 am
Since holding a second century dating for the gospels is a surprising - to say the least - conclusion it would be highly surprising to find anyone who holds such a position before the recent collapse of civilization we are currently living through. That doesn't mean that at least one or two writers in the pre-apocalyptic period might have sympathies for such an opinion. But expecting to find such an opinion is sort of like opening random oysters and expecting to find a pearl in each one.
There are several scholars who argue some or all of the canonical gospels are post-Marcion. One even posits Marcion is and became popular fiction and simple used the time stamp and reference to real people in the start, viz.
...In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar,
......Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea,
.........Jesus descended [out of heaven] into Capernaum, a city in Galilee,
to anchor the chief character in time and place to give the accounts about Him credibility.
And while that and those scholars' arguments have nothing to do with a US-centric view of the world, the popularity of those gospel stories then, ie. in the 2nd century, do reflect similar apocalyptic times: both the two Roman-Jewish Wars and the beginning of the wobbles of and in the Roman Empire.