How old is the first bible? Where in the world was the first bible written?

Question

I am talking about the Judeo-Christain bible, Old Testament

Answer 1

The Bible was composed in pieces from about 1000 BCE until about 200 BCE. (Moses didn't write any of it.) It was finally compiled into the single document we know it as in Protestant Christianity and Judaism today about 90 CE. The Catholic Old Testament includes several books that are found primarily in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, but were not included in the Old Testament agreed upon in 90 CE.

Answer 2

Between the time of the scribe Ezra and the fall of the Temple to the Romans (i.e., from about 300 before the Christian era to about 60+ of the Christian era) the Hebrew Bible (Tanach) was codified and would have appeared in written form — though full original manuscripts do not survive from that time. The Dead Sea Scrolls which are fragments of religious texts related to the practices of sects that knew the Hebrew Bible do survive, having been discovered over a half century ago. The Hebrew Bible was sufficiently known and well-enough codified that a Greek translation, the Septuagint (supposedly translated by 70 scholars of the Jewish community of Alexandria in Egypt), was produced just before the dawn of the Christian era and this, not the Hebrew text, was the main source for what Christians call the "Old Testament" portion of the bible used in Christianity. In this sense, the Bible was a product of scholars and believers in three centers of Judaism (and later, the early Judaeo-Christianity): Babylon, Jerusalem, and Alexandria.

Answer 3

The first recording of the old testament cannon, was in the 100's.

each of the books was written for a different purpose, in a different time, and most by different authors. That's why the stories of Jesus are told different ways and include different aspects in the first few books of the N.T.

the old and new testament are "canons" or "sets" of these books, that's why there are so many, and why protestant and catholic bibles have different books within them (like Maccabees) It's because the grand phooba's of their era decided different books belonged and didn't.

It's also why the "dead sea scrolls" are so important, and how we get things like the apigrapha and pseudopigrapha (not sure on that spelling!) that let us get things like the gospel of thomas that the movie "Stigmata" is based on.

Answer 4

CNN recently did a one hour special on this. Perhaps you can research this through them. I dont recall all the specifics but the one piece of data i do recall is that Paul wrote the first words and odd as it may seem I thought they said it was around 60 A.D. The bible itself came much later but I can't recall when.
(By recently I meant that the special ran within the last month.)

Answer 5

moses was the first recorded scribe for God in the Judeo-Christian bible. Along those same lines the first bible would have been written before the beginning of this earth age.

Answer 6

I think that the question you have asked has no real answer. For example, the story of Noah's ark seems to have its beginnings in Sumerian texts!

Answer 7

the bible was compiled from stories found all over the world(or know world at that time), and then put together.