<P> The four gospels of the New Testament -- Matthew , Mark , Luke and John -- are almost our only source of information on Jesus , and thus occupy a uniquely important place in Christianity . They were all written in the period between c. 70 AD and the end of the 1st century , by anonymous authors , and stand at the end of a process of oral and written tradition that began on , or even before , the death of Jesus . </P>
in which period of time were the gospels written
between c. 70 AD and the end of the 1st century