The Gospel of Philip is one of the Gnostic Gospels, a text of New Testament which was lost in modern times until an Egyptian man rediscovered it by accident, buried in a cave near Nag Hammadi, in 1945.
The Gospel of Philip was written between 150-350 AD, while Philip himself lived in the first century, making it extremely unlikely to be his writing.
Most scholars hold a 3rd-century date of composition.
Year: 180-250 AD
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