Brother Jovial,

Your question and provided findings spark a firestorm of possibilities that inspire a  flood of contextual and doctrinal confirmation that I would like to explore further. Thank you for pointing out  that the NT bible may not be chronological, and that this in essence can / should change the way we see transitions of dispensation.  Since the birth of the church popularly agreed to be Antioch, therefore any Syrian texts should be considered more reliable. Which begs the question...how many other misconceptions and outright false dates of writings have we been force fed ?

Alan T

Jovial (14 June 2015) 
"When was Revelation Written?"

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It is conventionally held by many if not most scholars that Revelation was written after the year 90 AD.  This is based on a quote from Eusebius of Irenaeus that he was jailed during the reign of Domitian.  But wait.....there was another emporer with almost the same named....Called Domitius, also called Nero.  Those names are so close, that I'd have to see how it appeared in the original Greek or Latin.  After all, Case grammar caused names to change at the end, and Latin worked a bit different from Greek.  So these two names could have easily gotten confused.
Many Aramaic / Syriac copies of Revelation claim in the intro that John / Yochanan was put on the isle of Patmos by "Nero Caesar"  So it could have been written around 68 or 69 AD.
Whatever the case, it may not matter a whole lot.  But I saw something on this and thought I'd pass it on.
Shalom,
Joe