When was the Bible written?

Question

When was the old testiment written and when was the new written.
Who was the equivalent of Jesus in the world before Jesus was born?
Is it correct that Jesus wasn't even mentioned until over 100 years after he lived? And no one took note of his actual birthday either?
Which came first the Bible or the Qaran?
So many Questions in one

Answer 1

+ The Old Testament was written between 1445 B.C. and 400 B.C.

+ The New Testament was written between 40 A.D. and 95 A.D.

+ To the best of my knowledge, there was no other Messiah before Jesus was born.

+ It is not correct that Jesus was not even mentioned until over 100 years after he lived. The Acts of the Apostles record some of the activities of the Church from after Jesus rose to heaven to about 61 A.D.

+ No one knows Jesus' birthday and Christmas was not celebrated until about the third century. Why December 25 (Catholic) and/or January 6 (Orthodox) was chosen is a long story.

+ The Quran was written from 610 A.D. to 633 A.D. therefore the Bible came first.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Old Testament- a long time ago. Not, however, as long as it says people have existed. My guess is around 500-1000 BC for the earliest, but i'm open to revision.

New Testament- not 2007 years ago. Jesus died around 33 AD, and the first gospels were written about 70 years later. Revelations was possible as long as 200 years after that, and of course all these separate books didn't become "the Bible" until even later.

There were probably plenty of people before Jesus claiming to be the son of God, but people didn't buy it. Socrates, Buddha and Confucious were great philosophers already though.

Jesus was mentioned all the time by his follwers, the story wasn't written for awhile, 70 or so years. And no, no one knows his real birthday (Dec. 25 is an old pagan festival and/or the birthday of earlier messiah gods, which early christians adopted to convert other people more easily).

The Koran was about 600 years later, i think. The whole point of Muhammad was that Christianity had been corrupted by man, and he was being told to correct it by God.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, there will never be any positive proof
of an exact date for any of the scriptures. Even the
most knowledge biblical scholars would agree to
that.
What is known is that the events written about --
such as the parting of the Red Sea, Noah's Ark,
the fall of Babylon, etc.--were not written of at any
time when the writers would have been alive to
witness the events in-question; they were not a
bunch of primitive reporters.
And, what makes The Bible just a bit more of a
mystery is that the exact point in time when the
B.C. era changed over to the A.D. era has never
been agreed upon.
Last but not least, I might as well mention: the
term A.D. (Anno Domini--Latin, which means
"year of the dominator) is, in itself, somewhat
obsolete. Historians today often use the term...
C.E., meaning "common era"; since, after all,
the "era" in which we now live is much better-
known to any and all who are (or ever were)
alive to witness the events of that took place
after the B.C. era; events which are infinitely
easier to prove actually did occur.

Answer 4

The Old Testement was written about 1400 BC. The New Testement was written between 60 and 120 AD. There is no contemporary account of Jesus while he was alive.
The Qaran was written in the sixth century AD

Answer 5

The bible was written in chapters span hundreds of years, mostly by jewish scholars (all old testament is jewish writing) it wasn'y until the time of justinian (a christian roman emperor) that he gathered the various cults of christianity at the council of nicia (mispelled) there they made the bible. we do know that not all the chapters were added into it so some teaching were discarded. this is well over 100 after jesus supposed death (romans were good record keepers but no record speaks of jesus being crucified) before jesus the greatest known jews were noah(and his ark, which is believed found in turkey) moses(led his people out of egypt) and abraham (father abraham as the song goes) each were prophets but the best known jewish prophet is john the baptist who fortold jesus arrival. finally the bible came first but christianity borrowed heavily of jewish text (then spent the next 1700 years killing jews) 800 years later islam was written also borrowing for christian and jewish text and has since been at war with both of them

Answer 6

no person individual wrote the Bible. that's a compilation of books written by many distinctive authors. the countless books themselves are probably compilations written by many distinctive authors (Genesis and Exodus, for instance). some have faith Moses wrote the 1st 5 books, yet it fairly is likely legend because of the fact writing style, vocabulary, and grammar selection interior the text fabric. additionally, there are issues of continuous good judgment throughout the time of, which betrays the risk that the 1st 5 books of the Bible have been written by many distinctive arms. the recent testomony grow to be additionally written by many distinctive human beings, likely throughout the time of the 1st century. even however, no person has get right of entry to to the unique information, we in basic terms have copies of copies of copies of copies. each and every of those copies are distinctive in some way, so that's impossible to pin down precisely what the unique text fabric says. we can in basic terms approximate what the unique text fabric stated. So, in a feeling, the Bible grow to be 'corrupted' by using the years of its written transmission by careless or theologically stimulated scribes. If God did certainly motivate the Bible, why did not God then shelter the unique information so as that we could all understand what they stated? My droop is that those are very human information, written by those with their very own theological, social, and cultural biases. those texts, for my area, do ingredient to God, yet they weren't authored by God. purely my opinion however. desire this permits slightly.

Answer 7

Whoa whoa whoa... "the first gospel was written 2007 years ago"? WRONG.

We don't even hear about Jesus until Thomas' writings about ~20 or so years after Jesus' death, which are mostly just quotes. And we both know the Gospel of Thomas was rejected.

From there, we get some of Paul's writings, which actually don't say much at all about Jesus' life.

Ultimately, the gospels weren't written until 40 to 70 years after Jesus' death. Everything they knew about him until then, was just oral tradition. It's also important to note that Mark was actually written first; Matthew and Luke simply copied and added to Mark's work.

As far as the "equivalent of Jesus", I think it would be safe to say that there was none. Yeah, yeah, there's all that Mithra controversy and yadayada, but, although I'm not trying to overlook such claims, I'll just say for the sake of argument that in the Jewish world (the world Jesus lived in), there was no equal.

Let me be a little more clear. Who is Jesus today, according to fundamentalists and such?

1. Son of Man - (son of God)
2. Lamb of God - (sacrifice for our sins)
3. Messiah - (savior)

All three of these titles were added to Jesus AFTER HIS DEATH, to be "in accordance with scripture", that is, Jewish scripture. By that token, here's the answer to your question:

The whole idea of a "sacrifice for our sins" came from the Jewish holiday's sacrificial lamb of "Yom Kippur." So before Jesus, or at least before his disciples transferred that title to him, the lamb itself was all the Jews had. As far [a] son of God, that idea came from Isaiah. There was no "Son of Man" before Jesus. Et cetera et cetera, you get the picture.

Jesus was one of a kind and something completely new in the eyes of the early Christian church.


PS. Other answers: someone else can answer when the old testament was written lol. Jesus' birth is estimated to have been around 4BC. The Bible came first. And yes, many questions in one but it's all good.

To: Pete K: "no positive proof of the exact dates"? Well, don't make it sound like we have no clue whatsoever, because for the most part I think its safe to say we have a pretty good idea.

Answer 8

The Old Testament was written from around 600 BCE.

The main authors were: Jeremiah, Baruch (600 BCE- 590 BCE) with help of Persians and then Nehemiah and Ezra from 450 to 420 BCE (again with help of Persians).

See the Supreme Bible of God which gives you all the source texts from which the Bible was written as well as the Biblical texts.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/bible_of_god.htm

+++Is the Bible fact or fiction+++

If we take just one character, Moses, did Moses ever exist? or was Moses in fact based on the real historic figure of Pharaoh Akhenaten?

The Essene High Priests exiled at Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls etc) certainly believed the Torah was pure fiction and based on Akhenaten. One of their most treasured relics was
the Copper Scroll on which is written in Greek:
"Akhenaten is also Zadok". (in other words Akhenaten is Moses/Aaron )...
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/sources/copper_scroll/copper_scroll_0010.htm

Or maybe the instruction from Nehemiah to the Temple on Elephantine Island around 420 BCE on the "brand new" ceremony of Passover is a clue that the Old testament Bible is a made up story?
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/old_testament/apocrypha/passover/passover_0010.htm


+++What did Jesus think?+++

Jesus founded the Nazarenes, also known as the gnostics.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm

Jesus believed the god of the old testament was not god, but satan, the ultimate deceiver pretending to be god.

This of course makes perfect sense, for any god that commands its followers to kill, has to be twisted and evil. Any God that is "jealous" is "vengeful" clearly cannot be the creator of the universe, but some lesser deity.

However, the Sadducee High Priests with Paul of Tarsus created the parasite religion called christianity to deceive even those who thought they follow Jesus.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0000.htm

Answer 9

The OT was written on a Tuesday.
The NT on a Friday.

The equivalent of Jesus was....the other people (as mentioned in the OT).

I think Jesus was mentioned numerous times, before he lived (in the OT).

I'm not sure about the B'day date (could've been a Sunday)

I don't know which book came first....probably the Quaran.

Lot's of questions.....and I have no real answers!

Answer 10

It was written when Roman Empire came in Power to control the citizen, then after that Bible were edited, re-written, twisted around, and twisted around some more. Today, we have many splits, but they all want to think they are Christian or Bible student. Silly isn't it? Religion is Artificial, man made excuse to make us feel OK. But the truth is unknown, besides religion kills, teach us prejudice and suffering. Bing loving compassionate and spiritual is more important than ritual, rules, condition, worshiping, etc, etc.