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The New Testament comprises twenty-seven short writings which were composed between AD 50 and AD 130: four gospels, twenty-one letters, the Acts of the Apostles and the Revelation of John (the Apocalypse). All are written in Greek.

Gerd Theissen, The New Testament: History, Literature, Religion, trans. John Bowden (London: T&T Clark, 2003), 1.

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