history of the Bible?

Question

I'm looking for a book on the history of the Bible. What is the best book that you"d recommend ?

Answer 1

Start with www.stephen-knapp.com/articles_to_read.htm the bibles new testament, has its roots in the rig vedas and hinduism. the old testament is jewish history.

Answer 2

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 3

John Romer's book,Testament;The Bible And History,is a good start.

Answer 4

The book entitled:
“All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial”

I a condensed book exolaining each of the 66 books of the Bible.

You can order it here:

http://www.watchtower.org/

Answer 5

Here's a great resource. It tells us how we got the English Bible. Of course the original published version was the Guttenberg, in German.

Also, which book are you talking about --old or new testament? I love the way people of faith lump it all together and it's the supposed unbelievers who usually turn out to be well read and informed on this subject.

Just saying...

Answer 6

THE BIBLE GIVES ITS OWN HISTORY

OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS

0000-0000 Genesis 1:1,2; Time evident as billions all exist.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If sun 4.5 & 4.5 bil. left Rev.21:23.
0000-0000 Genesis 1:3-31; 41,870 + 130 Adam to 42,000 man LOST.
0000-0000 Genesis 50:26; Joseph year 2368 dies year 1698 BCE.
~~~~-BCE is Before Common Era ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0000-1698 Genesis to death of Joseph in Egypt 93 years of 110.
1698-1633 Job [ 2:1,2 Satan. 38:4-7 Angels see focus on earth ];
1553-1513 Exodus 12:41[430 years, Promised Land heirs exit Egypt];
1553-1513 Leviticus 1Chr.6:1-15 the priest line to temple, kings end to Ezra.
1553-1513 Numbers 16:22; 33:38,39 Aaron age 123, 40th year dies ];
1553-1513 Deuteronomy 34:7 40th year Moses dies. Judge Joshua ];
1513-1512 Joshua 5:6,10,12;
1512-1212 Judges 11:26 [ 300 years ]; Eli 1241-98-1143 dies ];
1212-1143 Ruth 4:18-22 The family of David as king line.
1143-1077 1Samuel Saul 1117-40-1077 and David 1107-60-1047
1077-1037 2Samuel. Psalms. Proverbs.
1037-0913 1King 6:1 [480 ]; 1Chronicles. Ecclesiastes. Song of Solomon.
0913-0606 2Kings. 2Chronicles 36:20-23 kings end,NO KING UNTIL JESUS.
0948-0848 Elijah and Elisha ..... 2Chr.21:12-18;
0839-0777 Amos and Nahum
0800-0740 Jonah and Zephaniah
0828-0714 Isaiah and Hosea
0775-0685 Obadiah and Micah... Jer.26:18;
0679-0604 Joel and Habakkuk
0628-0584 Jeremiah. Lamentations.
0628-0584 Ezekiel.
0633-0533 Daniel prophecy in 606.
0536-0443 Ezra, Zachariah/Cyrus
0486-0475 Mordecai, Esther/Ahasuerus
0536-0443 Haggai, Nehemiah/Artaxerxes
0433-0433 Malachi
0433-0336 Greece
0336-0164 Maccabees in Temple
0164-0062 Rome over Jerusalem and Judah.
0062-0046 Temple under Construction.
0046-0039 Herod in temple to Archelaus.
0037-0002 Jesus born in Roman Empire
0002-0000 Jesus in Egypt and Archelaus in power.

NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts. Romans, 1Corinthians, 2Corinthians, Galatains, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1Thessalonians, 2Thessalonians, 1Timothy, 2Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1Peter, 2Peter, 1John, 2Johm, 3John, Jude, Revelations year 50 CE to 98 CE.

Answer 7

Grimm's Fairy Tales