Thursday, 11 April 2024

What factors prompted the writing of the gospels?

 The destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE at the end of the disastrous Roman-Jewish War left Judaism in turmoil and leaderless. It was quickly followed by the writing of Mark’s Gospel, which may have been seen as an opportunity to reach out to members of the Jewish diaspora and attract them into a variant religion that allowed them to worship the same God while being seen to support Roman rule.

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