When is the time they put together all the 66 books together and make it a bible? Was the dead sea scrolls the last to add into the bible. Which books in the bible are from the dead sea scrolls?
Please help.
2006-09-20 05:05:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A) The original Canon of Scripture was 73 books, 46 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New. It was compiled, exposited, and sanctified by the Church in Council in the 4th century AD.
B) Martin Luther removed 7 books, plus parts of 2 others, in the Old Testament in the 16th century. According to him they were unacceptable to Jewish scholars in the first century AD. Although Jesus was quite fond of quoting from these books, especially Sirach and Baruch, Luther didn't like them because they flatly contradicted some of his bright ideas. He'da got rid of the Epistle of James to the Hebrews too, but he didn't quite dare tamper with the New Testament.
C) The Dead Sea Scrolls contain bits of the Old Testament. When Scripture was being put together by the Church their existence was unknown, having been lost for some 3 centuries at least by that time. They had no part in the compilation of Scripture.
2006-09-20 05:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible with all 66 books was not put together as one book till the early 1500's due to the printing press. The O.T. books were all written by about 400B.C. while the N.T. books were all written by 90A.D. The dead sea scrolls found in the late 1940's are dated back about 2,000 years. The dead sea scrolls contained a few entact books of the O.T. such as Isaiah otherwise they were just portions of the rest of the O.T. books except for the book of Ester which was not among the original finds but it may have been found later according to one report I read. Only a few words were updated throughout the Bible translations we have now. The New King James version is one that reflects the update of those words. I use it often but am not sure of other versions.
Usually if you check on the preface of a bible especially study Bible versions it will usually tell you what manuscripts were used for that translation. You could browse through your local Christian bookstore Bible section to find out.
2006-09-22 11:12:39 · answer #2 · answered by Ernesto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
195 AD was the first translation of the whole Bible into Latin (from Greek), so I guess it was all together before that.
The Dead Sea Scrolls: date from 200 B.C. - 70 A.D. and contain the entire book of Isaiah and portions of every other Old Testament book but Esther.
2006-09-20 12:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by theology_chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1814
2014-08-04 16:04:30 · answer #4 · answered by Ardo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happened when the church men took a vote and got a majority.
2006-09-20 12:07:39 · answer #5 · answered by Joseph S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a long long time ago
2006-09-20 12:07:20 · answer #6 · answered by papaofgirlmegan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋