when was the bible written?

Answer 1

Yesterday.

Answer 2

Which part? There are 66 books by over 40 authors contained in the Bible. The earliest may date from 1500 BC or earlier, and the last from 90-95 AD. (A spread of over 1600 years).

What is called the Old Testament reached the final form in which we know it today around 450-400BC. Though many of the books within it date much earlier then that.

The New Testament books were written beftween 48 and 95 AD. The earliest complete compilation of them still in existence dates from 125-150AD. However due to Christianity being a "banned" religion for which people were executed, it was not until the ban was lifted around 320 AD that the Christians were able to "official" decided the content of the New Testament. There still exist today over 2,300 manuscripts of the New Testament books which predate this "official" declaration of its content.

The first complete "Bible" was produced around 350AD, with 50 copies being made. Prior to that, the technology for making "books" did not exists. So everything was on scrolls, which due to their size could not hold the entire Bible. Rather they held a single book, or a small collection like the four gospels.

The Old Testament was in Hebrew (with two short sections in Aramaic). The New Testament was in Greek. Both, by this time, were become ancient languages.

So in the early 400s the Bible was translated into Latin. That translation is called the "Vulgate", which means "common", because Latin was the common language of that date. For the next 1000 years, the Vulgate would be "the Bible" of the Christian church.

The 1500s would see a major reformation within the church and the birth of the Protestant churches. One of the first things the Protestants did was to begin translating the Bible into the common language of the people of the time, as Latin had become a "dead" language.

Several English Bibles appeared (translation by Tyndale, Bishops Bible, Geneva Bible) and it was causing some problems. Besides the text of the scriptures, each of the translation also included columns of commentary and interpretation, which often disagreed with each other (and where very nasty to Catholics). So King James ordered the creation of an "authorized" English version of the Bible. Completed in 1611, it would come to bear his name, and (with revisions in the late 1600s and late 1700s) would be "the" English Bible for about 300 years.

In the 1900s, discovery of new, early manuscripts of the Bible, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, lead to a new round of Bible translations, which show no sign of ending any time soon. These Bible have the advantage of being able to go back to those very early manuscripts and translate directly from the original language. They are not "translations of translations", and are accurate and reliable translations of the original text.

Answer 3

There are 66 books in the bible. Each book was written at different times. The first book Genesis was written by Moses after the Exodus from Egypt, commonly dated around 1440 b.c. though many prefer a date around 1260 b.c. The last book of the bible is Revelation. It is believed to have been written by the apostle Paul around 95–96 a.d. The remaining books were written in between these times.

Answer 4

What is now called the Bible started out as a series of writings based on very old myths and legends. These have since been re-written, modified, added to and translated many times. Is it therefor fair to call the Bible the inerrant word of God?

The earliest writings of the Old Testament were written around 1850 BCE. Theses were stories borrowed from the older writings of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
First Great Revision of Judaism about 1200 B.C.E. The myth of Exodus was included in the revision, transformed as it was from the older story of the expulsion of the Hyksos
Second and third revisions, 742 – 600 BCE the many gods of the Old Testament are harmonized into a singular being _ Yahweh
The Fourth Great Revision 586 B.C.E. to 538 B.C.E.
The Fifth Great Revision of Judaism 323 B.C.E. to 45 C.E. under Greek influence
The Last Great Revision of Judaism 30 C.E. to appx. 73 C.E
50 C.E. to 140 C.E. The Jesus Movement suddenly and quickly transformed itself from a social and political reform movement into a full-blown religion.
The Gospels: Mythmaking Begins in Ernest. Myths and miracles added to the bible 65 C.E. to appx. 120 C.E.
Emperor Constantine 313 C.E. to appx. 430 C.E. demanded that the bishops at the First Council of Nicea come up with a consistent, catholic doctrine that would be universal. This is where the word Catholicism comes from.
320 C.E. to 1330 C.E. Emperor Constantine ordered Eusebius to put together some scriptures for him to present to the new churches he was constructing at his new capital of Constantinople in time for his new festival of the resurrection, to be called "Easter”.
The Protestant Revision and the English Bibles 1330 to 1611. John Wycliffe organized the translation of the Bible into English.
The King James Bible version first appeared in 1611. Though the frontispiece written by the conference declares it to be a new translation, that's not really what it was. In fact, it was a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1602, which itself was a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1568, which was a revision of Coverdale's less than scholarly Great Bible, which was a rewrite of the Tyndale and Wycliffe works

Answer 5

Beginning with verbal history, eventually recorded by Moses. The Bible was written from Creation through about 70 AD.

Answer 6

The books of the Old Testament were written from approximately 1400 B.C. to 400 B.C.

The books of the New Testament were written from approximately A.D. 40 to A.D. 90

Answer 7

It is still being written in the minds of men through interpretation. The creation of the printing press made harder to change in modern time.

Answer 8

The Hebrew Bible was the first to be written in 1,400 B.C.E

Answer 9

over the course of over 1600 years, from 1510 B.C to about 90 A.D.

Answer 10

A LONG time after the events they write about and by persons who NEVER witnessed those alleged events.