>>14452373secular scholarship dates this creed
>3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received—that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, >4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, >5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. >6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. >7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. >8 Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.to around 30 AD
>James D. G. Dunn writes: "This tradition, we can be entirely confident, was formulated as tradition within months of Jesus' death.">Michael Goulder: "Paul 'received' the tradition -- that is, he was taught it at his conversion -- perhaps two years after Jesus' death.">Ulrich Wilckens: "indubitably goes back to the oldest phase of all in the history of primitive Christianity">Gerd Ludermann: "the elements in the tradition are to be dated to the first two years after the crucifixion of Jesus." >Paul Barnett: "within two or three years of the First easter.">Richard Burridge and Graham Gould: "from only a few years after Jesus' death.">Robert Funk and the Jesus Seminar: within "two or three years at most.">Richard Hays: "within about three years after Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem.">Alexander Wedderburn: "first half of the 30s." 