HOW OLD is the bible?

Question

I already looked at the same question asked by amymarie but I am asking more, and need more and websites too would be good!
I want to know exactly when and I mean how old was the word of the entity/deity known as god during Adam and eves time?
And when did the Egyptian start keeping record or there time, but really how old are they?
Who was the first pharaoh?
I mean, I can’t find much on the bible in that sense.
When was Caine and Lilith, mentioned, what time line?
Or better yet Adam and Lilith?
And yes I know it was real because my dad has the king James version of it and it’s pretty old.
Is Caine, Cain, Kaine, or Kain?
How do you calculate 950 BC? I.E: 950 BC Minus our time 2006 ??(BC, AD, What?) ?
Inquiring mind must know, such as me.
Please leave your proselytizing out of it, for one it’s illegal, for two it is harassment.

Thank you. Especially when you ask a specific question and you get religious banter, too, annoying as a mosquito.

Let me set something strait, what I am saying is I have seen a bible were Adam's first wife was Lilith and Caine was Adam and Lilith's Son. Later Adapted to be Adam and Eve's son, totally incorrect though, I stick by what I believe and recently somewhere I even found a piece of a bible that stated that so.
And Ia m sorry if people got the misinterpretation that I was asking how old THE god is, I didn't mean it like that! Basically all I am asking is: What is the age of the first writing or God’s Word?
As to Egyptian Pharoahs; I just wanted to know who was first?
How old do you think Adam and eve (aka in my book “Sadam and Evil”)?
Is it Caine, Cain, Kaine, or Kain?
I hope this helps?

Who believes that the bible is a banter of fiction wrote by lonely man with no faith? Or something like that?

Not the Christian/ Catholic bible, the oldest living text known to man of the deity/entity known as god?
What would that holy text be called?
What is the point of the dead see scrolls anyways? and are they some how conected with the great Alexandrian library? Or was it Alexander’s library? Didn't that thing sink to the bottom of the ocean?

Answer 1

Moses is the editor/author of the first 5 books of the Old Testament. Are you aware that the bible is a compendium of 66 books? The Old Testament was written all the way from the time of Moses (1400BC to 400 B.C.(The date the last book of the OT was written)

The NT on the other hand was written from about 40AD(The Book of Mark) to about 95AD(The book of Revelation). All the books were not compiled in a Canon or compilation for another 50-100 years. We know of compilations from 360AD. We have manuscript fragments of the NT from as earl as 42AD.

Using Geneologies from the bible Adam and Eve were created in 4026 B.C. I believe that was what your second question was asking. If you were asking how old God was...then its not a valid question. God does not age - nor is he bound by time. At least from a biblical perspective.

We have Egyptian records from 3100BC and King Harmers reign.

The first major documentable Pharoah was DJoser in about 2500BC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djoser

Lillith is not part of the Hebrew or Christian Bible historically or spiritually. Lillith comes from more of a pagan tradition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillith

When you say that you know it was real because of the King James version of the bible...it becomes very questionable. The KJV only lists lillith as a night demon.

Defining the spelling of Cain is useless as spelling was not standardized till around 1600AD. Also it was not written in English.

2006AD is now. It has some issues becuase there are about 4 years missing from the gregorian calender. The bible however does not list its dates in that system. It list dates according to the Hebrew Calender and the Greek Calender. And eventually the Roman Calender.

And modern usage of BC and AD are actually not preferred. BCE is a more common tool.

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Answer 2

Your questions are off the map darling. That may be why you aren't getting the answer you want.

The whole "Adam / Lilith" thing is NOT biblical. It comes from a play written in the Victorian times by a man named George MacDonald. You can still buy it on Amazon.

There is no Cain and Lilith. Cain's wife's name is not given in scripture.

The first pharaoh, again, is not biblical. You'll need an Egyptologist for that. You'll need that same Egyptologist for all your questions about the Egyptians. It's not biblical.

God is ageless. Time is man made. So "how old is God" is a totally unanswerable question.

When you say how old is the bible, do you mean the Christian Bible? Which was made canon in 395ad but had been floating around during the entire 350 years of Chrisian persecution? Or do you mean the Tanak and Torah? The Hebrew scriptures? The Tanak was around roughly 2500 years before Christ. The Torah, the first 5 books of the bible, roughly 5000 years before Christ.

You mention the King James Bible. That's only about 200 years old. It was originally called the English Standard Version. Any current bible with "standard" in the title is a variation of the King James. King James the first commissioned the English Standard bible so his church, which split from the Holy See under King Henry VIII in the mid 1500's, could have it's own bible. Up til then there was only the Catholic versions. The Douay Rheims (the first English translation) and the Latin Vulgate bibles.

The Latin Vulgate was translated from the Greek Septiguint by Saint Jerome somewhere around the year 400. Shortly after the Council of Hippo confirmed all canonical text.

Prselytizing is not illegal and is not harrassment. It can be harrassment. But generally speaking most folks are pretty nice about it.

Answer 3

the Old Testament writings began with the Pentateuch. Assuming Moses was the author of at least some of the books that would date the writings to the 13th Century B.C.
One could say the Ten Commandments written on stone was the first written "Scripture".
The New Testament writings began around A.D. 40s-50s and continued perhaps to around A.D. 90s.
The subject of extant manuscripts is another matter. We do not have the original autographs, but we do have reliable and verified ancient copies.
Of the Old Testament extant manuscripts the oldest I believe is are two fragments on silver foil sheet found in the tomb of Ketef Hinnom circa 600 B.C. These fragments inscribe Numbers 6:24-26:
YHWH bless you
and keep you
YHWH shine his face upon you
and be gracious to you
The next earliest grouping of biblical texts are the 250 B.C. - A.D. 70 Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 near Khirbet Qumran in Israel. Of approximately 825 extant documents, only one was complete. They contain sections of every Old Testament book except Esther and include more than 600 non-biblical texts. The scrolls reflect both the Masoretic and the Septuagint textual traditions.
Probably the two most important texts are the extant to the 10th and 11th Century A.D.: Masoretic Hebrew texts and the Septuagint text.
Of New Testament extant manuscripts, the earliest go all the way back to around A.D. 130, though most are probably extant to the 3rd and 4th centuries. In any regard, this is remarkable. There is no other writing of antiquity where the copies are so close to the originals. Even standards that we think nothing about, like Plato, the extant copies of Plato are 1200 years after Plato's death. For the New Testament it is mere decades giving the New Testament an unheard of historical and documentary veracity.

Answer 4

The exact age of the beginning of the Bible is not exactly known. Approximately 5000 years, give or take. As to how old God is, He is immortal and timeless. The Bible began long before Egypt was formed. What does who was the first Pharaoh have to do with anything? Cain and Lilith? Cain was Adam and Eve's son (the one who killed his brother Able). Lilith is part of SOME Hebrew traditions (the first wife of Adam, a woman's libber who was banished). The fact that your father has an old book, has nothing to do with the age of the writings in the Bible. The Bible is God's wore given to man for instruction. It just happens to be in book form. Didn't you go to school? BC, before Christ. AD, after death (translation). That has nothing to do with religion, that is the way the calendar was set up. You know, for someone who is smart enough to use the word proselytizing correctly, you are ill informed on so many other things. I guess that is why you are asking. Numbers 6:24

Answer 5

The mitochondrial Eve findings were, in the first instance, in line with biblically-based expectations; while not proving the biblical Eve, they were consistent with her reality, and were not predicted by evolutionary theory. Eve lived 6,000 to 6,500 years ago, right in the ballpark for the true ‘mother of all living’ (Genesis 3:20).

Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilization in north-eastern Africa. It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extension during the second millennium BCE, which is referred to as the New Kingdom period.

The first king mentioned by name is Shishaq (probably Sheshonk I) (commonly dated between 926 and 917 BC), the founder of the twenty-second dynasty and contemporary of Rehoboam and Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:40; 2 Books of Chronicles 12:2 sqq.). Pharaoh is not prefixed to his name probably because the Hebrews had not yet become familiarized with the new style.

The next, Sua or So, ally of Osee, King of Israel (2 Kings 17:4), is commonly identified with Shabaka, (721 BC – 707/706 BC), the founder of the twenty-fifth dynasty, but he was probably an otherwise unknown local dynast prior to Shabaka's reign. Winckler's opinion that he was a ruler of Musri in North Arabia, though accepted by many, is without sufficient foundation.

Tharaca, who was the opponent of Sennacherib, is called King of Ethiopia (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9), and hence is not given the title Pharao which he bears in Egyptian documents.

Nekau II, (610 - 595 BC) who defeated Josiah (2 Kings 23:29 sqq.; 2 Chronicles 35:20 sqq.), and Ephree or Hophra, the contemporary of Sedecius (Jeremiah 44:30), are styled Pharaoh Neco and Pharaoh Ephree, according to the then Egyptian usage.

Isaiah 34:14, describing the desolation of Edom, is the only occurrence of Lilith in the Hebrew Bible:

Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children. In Isaiah, Lilith is a kind of night-demon or animal, translated as onokentauros; in the Septuagint, as lamia; "witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia; and as screech owl in the King James Version of the Bible.

KJV: "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest."

950 BC is 950 years before 0 then it starts at 1 AD, (Anno Domini, Latin for "In the Year of the Lord") so you would add the two together.

Answer 6

The English be conscious "gay" became not invented till the early 1800's. So any Bible translated till now that aspect received't use that be conscious. in spite of the indisputable fact that once you study the outline of the act being condemned ("a guy mendacity with yet another guy as he would with a lady", operating example) it really is sparkling that it really is speaking of what on the instantaneous is named "homosexuality". Older Bibles also does not communicate of "gays", through the indisputable fact that use of the be conscious in basic terms dates about 20-30 years. So a translation made four hundred years in the past does not use it. Languages replace, it really is why the Bible must be retranslated each and every era or 2.

Answer 7

How old are you? Those are some pretty immature statements you made. First of all, the Bible couldn't be written until writing was invented. Therefore there was no bible during the time of Adam and Eve...which is a myth. The Kingdom of Israel was established about 1050 B.C. The Books of Moses/Pentateuch (oldest in the Bible) are not as old as people think.

In the first place, there is no affirmative evidence that Moses is the author of those books; and that he is the author, is altogether an unfounded opinion, got abroad nobody knows how. The style and manner in which those books are written give no room to believe, or even to suppose, they were written by Moses; for it is altogether the style and manner of another person speaking of Moses. In Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, (for every thing in Genesis is prior to the times of Moses and not the least allusion is made to him therein,) the whole, I say, of these books is in the third person; it is always, the Lord said unto Moses, or Moses said unto the Lord; or Moses said unto the people, or the people said unto Moses; and this is the style and manner that historians use in speaking of the person whose lives and actions they are writing. It may be said, that a man may speak of himself in the third person, and, therefore, it may be supposed that Moses did; but supposition proves nothing; and if the advocates for the belief that Moses wrote those books himself have nothing better to advance than supposition, they may as well be silent.

But granting the grammatical right, that Moses might speak of himself in the third person, because any man might speak of himself in that manner, it cannot be admitted as a fact in those books, that it is Moses who speaks, without rendering Moses truly ridiculous and absurd:--for example, Numbers xii. 3: "Now the man Moses was very MEEK, above all the men which were on the face of the earth." If Moses said this of himself, instead of being the meekest of men, he was one of the most vain and arrogant coxcombs; and the advocates for those books may now take which side they please, for both sides are against them: if Moses was not the author, the books are without authority; and if he was the author, the author is without credit, because to boast of meekness is the reverse of meekness, and is a lie in sentiment.

Answer 8

The first books of the Bible are the first five.

Called the Pentateuch - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers - The first book was written by Moses in 1513 BCE.

Answer 9

The bible is sayed to be about 6000 years old. 950 BC means 950 years + 2006 years = 2956 years ago.

Answer 10

Which Bible? See also the Cambridge History of the Bible.
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