Haggai Haggai ,, 583 Zechariah Zechariah ,, 520 Malachi Malachi ,, 420 New Testament. BOOK AUTHOR DATE Matthew Matthew A.D. 40 Mark Mark ,, 63 Luke Luke ,, ,, John John A.D. 97 Acts Luke ,, 63 Romans Paul ,, 57 1 Corinthians ,, ,, ,, 2 Corinthians ,, ,, ,, Galatians ,, ,, 55 Ephesians ,, ,, 62 Philippians ,, ,, ,, Colossians ,, ,, 61 1 Thessalonians ,, ,, 52 2 Thessalonians ,, ,, ,, 1 Timothy ,, ,, 64 2 Timothy ,, ,, 65 Titus ,, ,, ,, Philemon ,, ,, 61 Hebrews ,, ,, 62 James James ,, ,, 1 Peter Peter ,, 64 2 Peter ,, ,, ,, 1 John John ,, 68 2 John ,, ,, ,, 3 John ,, ,, 69 Jude Jude ,, 64 Revelation John ,, 96 The names and dates given in the foregoing table are, with a few exceptions, paraded as established facts. And yet the greater portion of them are mere assumptions, without even the shadow of proof upon which to base them. Many of them are self-evidently false--are contradicted by the contents of the books themselves. The authorship of at least fifty books of the Bible--thirty in the Old Testament and twenty in the New--is unknown. These books are not as old as claimed. The books of the Old Testament, instead of having been written from 1520 to 420 B.C., were probably written from 1000 to 100 B.C. The books of the New Testament, instead of having all been written in the first century, were, many of them, not written until the second century. In regard to this subject, Prof. George T. Ladd of Yale College writes: "The authorship and date of most of the Old Testament writings, and of some of the New Testament, will never be known with certainty" (What Is the Bible? p. 294).