I am reading Many Infallible Proofs by Pierson and he states:
The exact year of the production of each of the four gospels cannot be
fixed. But the most careful and scholarly modern criticism puts the date
of St. Matthew’s record at about 38 A. D., and his record of this
prophecy is the fullest, as well as the first. Mark wrote A. D., 67 to
69. Luke A. D. 63. John A. D. 95.
I thought I had always read that Mark was considered to be the first gospel written and its date to be around 50AD. Yet Pierson states that modern scholarship (1885) identifies Matthew to be the first gospel written and in 38AD.
Anyone know of any Logos resources that can address when Biblical scholars change opinions and for what reason?
Thanks.