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The numbers on the left are for an estimated range of dating.

30-60	Passion Narrative
40-80	Lost Sayings Gospel Q
50-60	1 Thessalonians
50-60	Philippians
50-60	Galatians
50-60	1 Corinthians
50-60	2 Corinthians
50-60	Romans
50-60	Philemon
50-80	Colossians
50-90	Signs Gospel
50-95	Book of Hebrews
50-120	Didache
50-140	Gospel of Thomas
50-140	Oxyrhynchus 1224 Gospel
50-200	Sophia of Jesus Christ
65-80	Gospel of Mark
70-100	Epistle of James
70-120	Egerton Gospel
70-160	Gospel of Peter
70-160	Secret Mark
70-200	Fayyum Fragment
70-200	Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
73-200	Mara Bar Serapion
80-100	2 Thessalonians
80-100	Ephesians
80-100	Gospel of Matthew
80-110	1 Peter
80-120	Epistle of Barnabas
80-130	Gospel of Luke
80-130	Acts of the Apostles
80-140	1 Clement
80-150	Gospel of the Egyptians
80-150	Gospel of the Hebrews
80-250	Christian Sibyllines
90-95	Apocalypse of John
90-120	Gospel of John
90-120	1 John
90-120	2 John
90-120	3 John
90-120	Epistle of Jude
93	Flavius Josephus
100-150	1 Timothy
100-150	2 Timothy
100-150	Titus
100-150	Apocalypse of Peter
100-150	Secret Book of James
100-150	Preaching of Peter
100-160	Gospel of the Ebionites
100-160	Gospel of the Nazoreans
100-160	Shepherd of Hermas
100-160	2 Peter
100-200	Odes of Solomon
101-220	Book of Elchasai
105-115	Ignatius of Antioch
110-140	Polycarp to the Philippians
110-140	Papias
110-160	Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel
110-160	Traditions of Matthias
111-112	Pliny the Younger
115	Suetonius
115	Tacitus
120-130	Quadratus of Athens
120-130	Apology of Aristides
120-140	Basilides
120-140	Naassene Fragment
120-160	Valentinus
120-180	Apocryphon of John
120-180	Gospel of Mary
120-180	Dialogue of the Savior
120-180	Gospel of the Savior
120-180	2nd Apocalypse of James
120-180	Trimorphic Protennoia
130-140	Marcion
130-150	Aristo of Pella
130-160	Epiphanes On Righteousness
130-160	Ophite Diagrams
130-160	2 Clement
130-170	Gospel of Judas
130-200	Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus
140-150	Epistula Apostolorum
140-160	Ptolemy
140-160	Isidore
140-170	Fronto
140-170	Infancy Gospel of James
140-170	Infancy Gospel of Thomas
140-180	Gospel of Truth
150-160	Martyrdom of Polycarp
150-160	Justin Martyr
150-180	Excerpts of Theodotus
150-180	Heracleon
150-200	Ascension of Isaiah
150-200	Acts of Peter
150-200	Acts of John
150-200	Acts of Paul
150-200	Acts of Andrew
150-225	Acts of Peter and the Twelve
150-225	Book of Thomas the Contender
150-250	Fifth and Sixth Books of Esra
150-300	Authoritative Teaching
150-300	Coptic Apocalypse of Paul
150-300	Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
150-300	Melchizedek
150-400	Acts of Pilate
150-400	Anti-Marcionite Prologues
160-170	Tatian's Address to the Greeks
160-180	Claudius Apollinaris
160-180	Apelles
160-180	Julius Cassianus
160-250	Octavius of Minucius Felix
161-180	Acts of Carpus
165-175	Melito of Sardis
165-175	Hegesippus
165-175	Dionysius of Corinth
165-175	Lucian of Samosata
167	Marcus Aurelius
170-175	Diatessaron
170-200	Dura-Europos Gospel Harmony
170-200	Muratorian Canon
170-200	Treatise on the Resurrection
170-220	Letter of Peter to Philip
175-180	Athenagoras of Athens
175-185	Irenaeus of Lyons
175-185	Rhodon
175-185	Theophilus of Caesarea
175-190	Galen
178	Celsus
178	Letter from Vienna and Lyons
180	Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs
180-185	Theophilus of Antioch
180-185	Acts of Apollonius
180-220	Bardesanes
180-220	Kerygmata Petrou
180-230	Hippolytus of Rome
180-250	1st Apocalypse of James
180-250	Gospel of Philip
182-202	Clement of Alexandria
185-195	Maximus of Jerusalem
185-195	Polycrates of Ephesus
188-217	Talmud
189-199	Victor I
190-210	Pantaenus
193	Anonymous Anti-Montanist
193-216	Inscription of Abercius
197-220	Tertullian
200-210	Serapion of Antioch
200-210	Apollonius
200-220	Caius
200-220	Philostratus
200-225	Acts of Thomas
200-250	Didascalia
200-250	Books of Jeu
200-300	Pistis Sophia
200-300	Coptic Apocalypse of Peter
203	Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas
203-250	Origen

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