The below list does not reproduce a particular chart from D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo’s Introduction to the New Testament (2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), but it is based on the text. They roughly date the twenty-seven New Testament books as follows (though the exact order of the twenty-seven books is fuzzy, e.g., re the prison epistles):
- James: around 46–48 (just before the Jerusalem Council)
- Galatians: 48 (just prior to the Jerusalem Council)
- 1 Thessalonians: 50
- 2 Thessalonians: either in late 50 or early 51
- 1 Corinthians: probably early in 55
- 2 Corinthians: 56 (i.e., within the next year or so of 1 Corinthians)
- Romans: 57
- Philippians: mid–50s to early 60s if written from Ephesus (61–62 if written from Rome)
- Mark: sometime in the late 50s or the 60s
- Philemon: probably Rome in the early 60s
- Colossians: early 60s, probably 61
- Ephesians: the early 60s
- 1 Peter: almost surely in 62–63
- Titus: probably not later than the mid-60s
- 1 Timothy: early to mid-60s
- 2 Timothy: early or mid-60s (about 64 or 65)
- 2 Peter: likely shortly before 65
- Acts: mid-60s
- Jude: middle-to-late 60s
- Luke: mid or late 60s
- Hebrews: before 70
- Matthew: not long before 70
- John: tentatively 80–85
- 1 John: early 90s
- 2 John: early 90s
- 3 John: early 90s
- Revelation: 95–96 (at the end of the Emperor Domitian’s reign)
