con·tem·po·rar·y (kn-tmp-rr) adj. 1. Belonging to the same period of time: a fact documented by two contemporary sources. 2. Of about the same age. 3. Current; modern: contemporary trends in design. n. pl. con·tem·po·rar·ies 1. One of the same time or age: Shelley and Keats were contemporaries. 2. A person of the present age. . contemporaries noun all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age [syn: coevals, generation] Source: WordNet (r) 2.0 Contemporary Con*tem"po*ra*ry, n.; pl. Contemporaries. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) . Amos overlapped with Joel and Hosea. Hosea with Amos, Micah, and Isaiah. Isaiah with Micah and Hosea. Jeremiah overlapped with Nahum, Habakkuk, Obadiah,Ezekiel and Daniel. Zechariah with Haggai. Nehemiah with Ezra and Malachi. And of course most of the Gospel writers were contemporaries, although Paul's letters are not named after him. Peter and James (I believe that this James is Jude's brother) and Jude were contemporaries with Paul. (Gal 2:11-12; Jude 1; James 1:1; 2Pet 3:15)

While Paul was writing some of his letters, James was completing the book of James, and Peter was writing 1 Peter and 2 Peter.