how many books and writers has the Bible?

Answer 1

Just remember that back then there were no computers, cars or whatever we have nowadays, so them people not having anything to do started to write their dreams and their thoughts, that's how the bible originated, have hundreds of books but just a handful made it..☺

Answer 2

About 40 writers and 66 books.

Answer 3

The 73 books of the inspired Word of God were defined once and for all time by the bishops of the Holy Catholic Church, meeting in Council inCarthage, North Africa, in 397 A.D. Every Christian on earth used this complete Bible of 73 inspired books for the next 1,200 years. Then, one renegade Catholic priest started a new manmade tradition, rejecting many of the beliefs and practices that defined full Christianity. He also chose to throw out 10 books of the Word of God, 3 New Testament books and 7 Old Testament books. His followers wouldn't allow him to throw out the writings of the Apostles, so he ended up throwing out only the Old Testament books. So the Protesatnt bible has only 66 books. If Luther had his way it woulf have only 63. But the full, true Bible of course includes the same 73 books it has always included. This can never change.

Answer 4

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 5

66 books, and 40 writers. Paul wrote many of the books in the new testament.

This was confirmed on the news yesterday with a news item concerning the disgraceful lying of Rev. Ted Haggard.

Answer 6

Besides the "books " which make up the bible, there were many other ancient 'books' which were not included as part of the bible. Humans wrote these books and centuries later, other humans decided which books would be included in the 'official' bible.

Answer 7

How can anyone alive today really know the answer to that question? In order to properly answer that someone would have to have been alive for 2000 years to follow the bible & observe all of it's writers & additions. So my answer would be many.

Answer 8

their are 66 books in the bible 40 authors

Answer 9

Some Christian-head can give the book count, as to authors probably in the hundreds but noone knows for sure.

Answer 10

66 books, so I'm assuming 66 writers.