text: Hi Monica. I misunderstood. This venue will be fine. I think Galatians 1 is a problem for your reconstruction, because there Paul, writing some few years after 50, speaks of his past encounter/revelation of Christ and says that he did not go to Jerusalem to the "apostles before me," but the after 3 years he visited Cephas and James, so he was not well known to the churches in Judea. The events he reports are his own past, some very few years after the resurrection event and he knew even then that there were apostles in Jerusalem. His brief creedal statement in 1 Corinthians seems to me to witness to an already developed kerygma just a few years after easter, and some earlier Christian must have taught him that around 33-35.
  I do not quite get the written account of an imminent parousia discomforting oral tradition. Jesus never wrote anything, so why would his followers rush to print?