Wesley Huff

So it's written pretty far afterwards.

How many years?

So if Jesus dies in 33.

Okay.

Yeah.

Fine.

Yeah.

So at minimum, I think like 99% of historians, biblical scholars, classicists would argue that the 27 books of the New Testament are written in the first century.

And so in that sense, they're in the lifetime of the eyewitnesses to a certain degree.

And there's evidence even within some of the Gospels where you have these names thrown out kind of randomly.

And part of the thinking of that is that this is like citing your sources.

At one point, when Jesus is carrying the cross to Golgotha, he kind of stumbles and they get another person to carry his cross for a little bit.

And that person is Joseph of Arimathea.

Well, one of the Gospels names one of Joseph of Arimathea's son by name.

And the thinking is that this is probably someone who's well-known within the early Jesus community.

And the purpose of naming that person randomly is to say...

He's actually well-known.

Yeah.

So this is in my field referred to as mythological drift.

So how do we factor in