Who assembled the Holy Bible? Why and where was it done?

Question

What a surprise, virtually none of you could answer such a simple question.

Answer 1

The Church in the Middle Ages put all the stories and myths together to control the masses.

Answer 2

+ Old Testament +

The difference in the Catholic and Protestant Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.

The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.

Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm

+ New Testament +

There were hundreds of Christian writings during the first and second centuries. Which New Testament writings would become official was not fully decided until about A.D. 400.

This process went through several periods:
- The formation of the New Testament Canon (A.D. 100-220)
- The period of Discussion (A.D. 220-367)
- The period of fixation (A.D. 367-405)

Source: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Well there was this group of old people, they had nothing better to do with their time, since they couldn't work, no, they were far too old. Well, now these old people had a lot of beliefs and they kept them to themselves, they also despised that the next door neighbors practiced some kind of cult-like rituals and danced all night and had parties.

So what did these old people do? They wrote a book, they wrote a book on how they wanted to the world to be, they decided how the earth was created, as many books and beliefs had in them, and who created it, then they took turns writing in the book and when it was finished they pushed it onto their neighbors and friends and wanted to see how far their book could take them, laughing every time someone actually believed what garbage they wrote about.

But hey, they wanted their partying neighbors to be stoned because their Forest God was the same image that they used as their devil. Oh how the old people hated others religions.

That is how and who and why it was assembled for you in a nutshell.

Farther nutshell: It was made by old men bent on world domination using faith and beliefs as a tool to get people to follow them.

Answer 4

The Holy Bible was assembled back in the year 6 a.d. The bishops had gone through all of the writtings of the different disciples and eye witness reports and decided which ones to put in with the "collection". It is at this time that many books were not allowed in due to the fact they contradicted the story line they wanted to have in the bilble. That is why the books of Enoch (Son of Seth, sone of Adam) was banned along with other gospels of the disciples. It was done I believe in Jeruselem

Answer 5

The canonization of the Bible
Main article: Biblical Canon
It has been theorized that the canonical status of some books was discussed between 200 BC and AD 100, though it is unclear at what point during this period the Jewish canon was decided. Protestants cite the Jewish canon, among other reasons, as their basis for not including the deuterocanonical books (known as the Apocrypha to Protestants) in their canon.

To the books accepted by Judaism as canonical, Christianity subsequently added those of the New Testament, the 27-book canon which was finally fixed in the 4th century. Catholicism mostly considers certain deuterocanonical books to be part of the Old Testament, though Protestantism in general accepts only the books in the canon of Judaism as part of the Old Testament and uses the term Apocrypha for the deuterocanonical books. Thus, the Protestant Old Testament has a 39-book canon—the number varies from that of the books in the Tanakh (though not in content) because of a different method of division—while the Roman Catholic Church recognizes 46 books as part of the canonical Old Testament.

Canonicity is distinct from questions of human authorship and the formation of the books of the Bible; which are issues of higher criticism and textual criticism.

Bible versions and translations
In scholarly writing, ancient translations are frequently referred to as "versions", with the term "translation" being reserved for medieval or modern translations. Bible versions are discussed below, while Bible translations can be found on a separate page.

The original texts of the Tanakh were in Hebrew, although some portions were in Aramaic. In addition to the authoritative Masoretic Text, Jews still refer to the Septuagint, the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, and the Targum Onkelos, an Aramaic version of the Bible.

Early Christians produced translations of the Hebrew Bible into several languages; their primary Biblical text was the Septuagint. Translations were made into Syriac, Coptic,Ge'ez and Latin, among other languages. The Latin translations were historically the most important for the Church in the West, while the Greek-speaking East continued to use the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament and had no need to translate the New Testament.

The earliest Latin translation was the Old Latin text, or Vetus Latina, which, from internal evidence, seems to have been made by several authors over a period of time. It was based on the Septuagint, and thus included books not in the Hebrew Bible.

Pope Damasus I assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. He commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin. This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official bible. The Douay-Rheims New Testament, a direct translation of the Latin Vulgate, was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The Douay-Rheims Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was published in 1611. More recently, the New American Bible was first published in 1970 and the New International Version was published in stages between 1973 and 1984.

The work of Bible translation continues, including by Christian organisations such as Wycliffe Bible Translators (wycliffe.org), New Tribes Missions (ntm.org) and the Bible Societies (biblesociety.org). Of the world's 6,900 languages, 2,400 have some or all of the Bible, 1,600 (spoken by more than a billion people) have translation underway, and some 2,500 (spoken by 270m people) are judged as needing translation to begin.

Answer 6

Mosses in the wilderness started the bible and for years that is what they went by.
The first 5 books of the bible was written by him. Also Job the bible isn't written all in order as it happened.
Then Josua took over for him and wrote that book.
Samuel was a prophet and wrote about the Kings and Judges and whole bunch of books. The bible had 40 different men write it. But when Jesus came to the earth he quoted from it all the time and never said that one shouldn't be in there.
The new testiment was all about him. If in Isreal 2 witnesses say it is true then it is. So 4 men wrote Jesus life and they all harmonize. a double testimony to his existence.

Answer 7

The Church, gave us the list of the Books that form the Bible:
The Council of Laodicea, in 360, produced a list of books of the Old Testament similar to today's canon. This was one of the Church's earliest decisions on a Canon.
Pope Damasus I in the Council of Rome, in 382, gave us the complete list of the books of the Bible, including the New Testament... and the same Bible was confirmed by Pope Paul III at the Ecumenical Council of Trent (1545).

There are another 35 good books, dealing with themes of the Old and New Testament, and attributed to Enoch, Moses, Salomon, St. Paul, St. Thomas, St. James, St. Peter, Virgin Mary... and they are not in the Bible, because the Church says so!. Deutero-canonical and Apocrypha Books

- The Catholic and Orthodox Bibles have the 46 books of the Old Testament listed by the Councils of the Church, which are the same list as the Bible of the Jewish of Alexandria, who wrote the Septuagint, of the 3rd century before Christ, the version quoted by the Apostles when they wrote the Gospels and Epistles.
- The Protestant Bibles have 39 books in the Old Testament, as the Hebrew Bible of the Jews from Palestine, of the 7th century after Christ.
- The 27 books of the New Testament are accepted by Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants.

Many Protestants do not realize that the New Testament they cherish was given to them by a Pope, the Spaniard holy and wise Pope St. Damasus, at the times of St. Jerome and St, Augustine, in the Council of Rome, they the same Books used in all Protestant Bibles.

When Luther broke with the Pope, he kept the same New Testament as the one Pope Damasus I had given us... if the Pope is no good, then, the Bible is no good!.

However, Martin Luther, in accord with his posture of supreme self-importance as restorer of Christianity, even presumed, inconsistently, to judge various books of the Bible, God's holy Word.

- On the Old Testament: Of the Pentateuch he says: 'We have no wish either to see or hear Moses.... Job is merely the argument of a fable... Ecclesiastes ought to have been more complete. There is too much incoherent matter in it, Solomon did not, therefore, write this book... The book of Esther I toss into the Elbe. I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist, for it Judaizes too much and has in it a great deal of heathenish naughtiness . . . The history of Jonah is so monstrous that it is absolutely incredible . . .'

- The books of the New Testament fared no better. He rejected from the canon Hebrews, James, Jude and the Apocalypse. These he placed at the end of his translation, after the others, which he called 'the true and certain capital books of the New Testament.' . . . 'St. John is the only sympathetic, the only true Gospel and should undoubtedly be preferred to the others. In like manner the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Paul are superior to the first three Gospels.' The Epistle to the Hebrews did not suit him: 'It need not surprise one to find here bits of wood, hay, and straw.' The Epistle of St. James, Luther denounced as 'an epistle of straw.' 'I do not hold it to be his writing, and I cannot place it among the capital books.' He did this because it proclaimed the necessity of good works, contrary to his heresy. 'There are many things objectionable in this book,' he says of the Apocalypse, . . . 'I feel an aversion to it, and to me this is a sufficient reason for rejecting it' . . . See Luther and the Canon of the Bible

Answer 8

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D

Answer 9

Written? 66 Books...
"Scribed" by 40 different authors over thousands of years.
"Authored" by the Holy Spirit.
Compiled several times, but our current one was assembled by the Septuagint in the Middle Ages after study by 70 religious scholars after scrutinizing many scrolls, texts, and testimonies handed down through the church.
Assembled in the King James Version format under the authority of His Majesty King James of England, in 1611 A.D.

Answer 10

It is 88 books compiled over several thousand years from Moses, who wrote Genesis to John who wrote Revelations.
It was assembled into the first bible by King James, he also ordered it to be setup into chapters and verses. Alledgedly to try disprove it. In its current form the new translations were taken from the oldest manuscripts. Why? God intended for us to be able to read it in a book.

Answer 11

Joseph Smith, 1800's, compiled the most current, most complete version of the Holy Bible (old & new testament), Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.