when was the bible wrote and who wrote it?

Answer 1

Have you met my Nan?

Answer 2

The Holy Bible is compiled of writings that cover a span of about 1400 years and include some 40 writers. Within its pages are 66 books, yet it is considered one book. The time period recorded during those 1400 years covers nearly 4000 years of human history.

This 1400-year-period begins with the writings of Moses, the first five books of the Holy Bible. These writings include a time recorded prior to Moses' lifespan. It started out at the actual creation of the cosmos. By the time Moses completes the teachings found in Deuteronomy, we learn about the very beginning of mankind. The final writer was probably John when he was on the Isle of Patmos and wrote the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

Nothing has been added in over 2000 years and it is completely up to the reader to decide, if in fact, these writings are in fact the writings or word of god.

Answer 3

Its an old compilation thats really had its day. Old fables, no matter how good a story to read, need changing if it was ever to gain any popularity in the fiction popularity stakes. People still buy it because their M&D bought it.... or to the lemmings because other people expect them to buy it.
The interesting thing about the fiction within it is that you will always find a paragraph relevant to any situation or mishap so it is ideal for a persuader to bend the mind of a person who is insecure into making them actually think that the book as a whole has any sort of meaning. The intelligent of course know the opposite.

Harry Potter imparts an altogether better structured and plausible tale with equally ethical and moral endings.

Answer 4

most of the hebrew scriptures were written during or after the babylonian captivity in and around 550bce. various people and "schools of thought" wrote the books, based on their experiences as a people trying to define themselves in and against the cultural understandings of their neighbours. much of the writings were based on oral tradition, redacted to suite the needs of the spiritual community at the time. the texts themselves probably became canonical (ie: officially "binding") during the hasmonean dynasty in the period leading up to the roman empire. It was made canonical because for the first time in the hasmonean dynasty religious leaders were also the political leaders. (all previous kings and rulers were just that -kings and rulers... the hasmonean dynasty was a dynasty of "Priest-Kings) The canonization was primarily done by way of taking a religious system and making it work politically... thats the reason for the canon... otherwise it would have just been a series of religious texts that would or would not have changed over time. this is the basis for why christianity, judaism and islam have lasted as well as they have: the faiths are intrinsically political.

other responders have done a good job of summarizing the creation of the christian scriptures, but a few points that should be observed: Jesus is intrinsically political. the death on the cross was an execution method reserved by the romans EXCLUSIVELY for treason. the early christian movement was at its foundation political. the problem comes when the "pagan emporer" wants to start collecting the works of the early church and making them official... many of the books that dealt with criticising 'empire' were discarded, and only those passion narratives that made the jews look bad and the romans look 'better' were kept.

I am not trying to say that all of these texts come out because people want to manipulate and fabricate things. I sincerely believe that these texts (and others) come out of a genuine experience of the spiritual, and that they still have value today. I am christian and have a very sincere and real faith, but fundamentalism is not in any way a part of this. I have many friends who are of different or no faith and this presents little problem for me. faith is not about getting things right and believing in only "true things" faith is about constructing meaning, and there are very many helpful things in the bible for this excersize... but for it to be useful, you have to know where it comes from, the context it was said in, and how (if at all) it applies to today.

JMK

ps: I want to disagree with a previous poster. the whole bible does NOT have at its centre Jesus christ. the christian scriptures certainly do, but the first two thrids commonly called the old testament but more correctly referred to as the hebrew scriptures deals with the life of the jewish people. Isaiah prophecy's a messiah (annointed. all jewish kings are considered Messiah). Isaiah 44 and Isaiah 45 clearly refer to the persian king Cyrus who defeated the babylonians as the messiah. Isaiah was written in the months leading up to this victory and in the months or years following. retrospectively the authors are using the book to make spiritual sense of the new situation.

Answer 5

In the Old Testament~

The first 5 books are supposed to have been written by Moses,
around 4000 yrs. ago. These books are still what the Jewish people use as their Bible.

The rest of the Old-Testament books were chosen by scholars around 2300 yrs. ago. These few books were chosen from thousands of old writings ranging centuries apart for their being most inspired, probable, harmonizing with each other, and verifiable.


The New Testaments:

first 4 books,
'the Gospels'
were to have actually been written
by the 4 disciples themselves within 50
years of the Crucifixion.

The rest is primarily
accredited to Paul,
within about 150 years of the Crucifixion
(with exception of some of the letters: John1,2,3,
James, Timothy1,2).
.

Answer 6

The Bible was written over 2000 years by more than 40 different people, from different places, with different backgrounds, and professions as broad as a doctors, fishermen, tax collectors, carpenters. It was written in 3 different languages, aramaic, greek, and hebrew, and the whole thing has Jesus Christ as the common thread throughout. It is impossible for this to be true, if not for God.

God inspired the Bible, it is His word, spoken through people. All scripture is breathed out by God, and is useful for teaching, rebuking, and training in righteousness.

More than 600 years before Jesus was ever born, the Old Testament of the Bible existed and prophesied about Jesus' birth, life and death. Then more than 300 prophesies were fulfilled when Jesus was born, lived and died. The chances of just 8 prophecies coming true is 1:10 to the 17 power. To put that in perspective, it would be like covering the entire state of Texas with silver dollars, 2 feet thick. And on one of those silver dollars would have an x. And if you shuffled all of those silver dollars up, walked from border to border, and top to bottom for as long as you wanted and reached down in whenever you wanted to, and grabbed one of the silver dollars, that one would be the one with the x on it. That's the chances for just 8 prophecies to come true. But with Jesus, over 300 came true.

God is real! And Jesus is the way and the truth and life, and no one comes to God the Father except through Jesus.

Pray and invite Him into your life, and He will come!

Answer 7

The Bible's New Testament Books are the biographies of mylord Jesus, compiled by the friends/disciples of the repectable companions of Jesus, with an inspiration, as per belief. The NT Books contain the Gospel, that is, the words spoken and instructions given by mylord, who on his part, had been revealed of the Words of God the Father, the originator of All Holy Books in All the Religions.
The Biblical scholars have researched into the 'authorship' of all the books in Old and New Testament. That information is easily available.

Answer 8

The bible was WRITTEN by numerous people over a span of about 5000 years. It has been copied and minor changes have been made dozens of times, mostly because some words have 2 or 3 meanings when translated.

Answer 9

the bible was written over a period of 1500 years, it was originally cobbled together from stories collected around 80 years after christs death...

which is like asking my 92 year old nan to describe teh coventry blitz which was only 65 years ago... (WW2)

then man got his hands on it..well teh romans rewrote the bibe, they transcribed it from its native language (hebrew) into latin.

and in 4ad the roman empire, relaunched itself, the HOLY roman empire, and gave the world its bar stard offspring the catholic church. (400 ad, and there was no one left to contradict anyone, and theyve been lying about it for 2000 years

Answer 10

nobody knows when the different books were written, they were all written at different times, and most authors are unknown. they were largely edited and compiled in 325 AD by a pagan roman emperor named constantine, within the Nicaean Council. and, that pagan emperor threw out over 200 books of the bible. the bible's compilation was determined by a pagan, and most of it was discarded by him. go stir THAT into your coffee. it's silly mythological nonsense, nothing more.

Answer 11

I have asked the same question and the simple fact is that nobody knows.
How people can blindly follow someones' writings when they don't even know who they were is a complete mystery to me.

If you want to know about the one true God follow this link

http://www.venganza.org/