![]() ![]() ![]() In this context, his most influential book was The Jesus Papyrus (1996), co-written with Matthew d'Ancona, which examined the evidence of the earliest surviving New Testament papyri and argued that these fragments - of St Mark and St Matthew - could be dated, using revolutionary forensic technology as well as traditional techniques, to the early Sixties AD, and perhaps earlier. Thiede felt that the Gospel authors deserved to be read in a similar spirit. ![]() He was fond of quoting the distinguished classical scholar of late antiquity, George Kennedy: "Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said, and occasionally even knew what they were talking about." Thiede's ambition was to lay the intellectual foundations of what he called a "new paradigm" in Gospel scholarship, as simple in its arguments as it was provocative to the academic establishment. ![]()
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