10-30-2008, 05:13 PM
Shlama Akhi Stephen,
A major obstacle is the lack of contemporary accounts from that time period. As you stated previously, the 22-book collection obviously didn't appear all at once but was a gradual process that took probably decades. I doubt there existed anymore than the Gospels at most when Shimon was in Babylonia. Even then it may have just been Matthew's Gospel at first, I would imagine Luke's came by much later than the rest via Antioch....long after Shimon had departed from Mesopotamia and had been martyred in Rome (if indeed that was a historical fact). Paul's letters were probably copied and sent all over, to Mesopotamia most likely via the hands of Mari and Addai of the Seventy.
I'm just throwing out the most likely scenarios and obviously don't have any proof of any of these theories.
A major obstacle is the lack of contemporary accounts from that time period. As you stated previously, the 22-book collection obviously didn't appear all at once but was a gradual process that took probably decades. I doubt there existed anymore than the Gospels at most when Shimon was in Babylonia. Even then it may have just been Matthew's Gospel at first, I would imagine Luke's came by much later than the rest via Antioch....long after Shimon had departed from Mesopotamia and had been martyred in Rome (if indeed that was a historical fact). Paul's letters were probably copied and sent all over, to Mesopotamia most likely via the hands of Mari and Addai of the Seventy.
I'm just throwing out the most likely scenarios and obviously don't have any proof of any of these theories.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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