I’d like to hear more about that reasoning for the gospels dating. I’ve long suspected they are considerably older than the academics time line.
The basic reasoning is as stated in this article: there is no way the Gospels or Acts would have failed to indicate the writer’s knowledge of the Jewish rebellion (AD 66) or the destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70). Many academics date the Gospels later than AD 70 because they do not believe Jesus could have predicted the destruction of Jerusalem.