Who wrote the first bible?

Question

Who wrote the Old Testament and who wrote the New Testament?

Answer 1

No one person. The "bible" is a collection of translated Dead Sea Scrolls, first translated under the Catholic Church's direction in AD 400's. Serious editing, assumptions (the scrolls are NOT in good shape, have many pieces missing on most pages, etc.) so the blanks were filled in. Many scrolls were rejected as having been written long after the fact. (new Testament). The Old Testament was assembled over time by the Jewish, again many scrolls, many handed down oral stories that are NOT reliable...oral history gets exaggerated with each generation of telling. Neither Testament includes all writings, and in fact, some scrolls recently found, dispute what Jesus says, what Jesus wanted, etc. These scrolls are not widely popular in the Christian world, for they deflate, and in fact, dispute the entire basis of Christianity. As little as 20 years ago, bones have been found in Israel that indicate Jesus's grave, and bones...11 osuaries were found, little research has been allowed, for this is ONE touchy issue. IF one of the osuaries contains Jesus's bones (hard to prove, but mitochondrial DNA can give strong hints), then the entire basis of Christianity fails. So far, the bones have been sealed and kept hidden away "by apartment owners" where the bones were discovered. Hmmmmmmm.

Answer 2

No one person wrote the Bible. It is a compilation of books written by many different authors. Some of the books themselves are probably compilations written by many different authors (Genesis and Exodus, for example). Some believe Moses wrote the first five books, but this is most likely legend since writing style, vocabulary, and grammar differ within the text. Additionally, there are problems of consistent logic throughout, which betrays the probability that the first five books of the Bible were written by many different hands. The New Testament was also written by many different people, most likely during the first century. However, no one has access to the original documents, we only have copies of copies of copies of copies. Each of these copies are different in some way, so it is impossible to pin down exactly what the original text says. We can only approximate what the original text said. So, in a sense, the Bible was 'corrupted' over the years of its written transmission by careless or theologically motivated scribes. If God did indeed inspire the Bible, why didn't God then preserve the original documents so that we could know what they said? My hunch is that these are very human documents, written by human beings with their own theological, social, and cultural biases. These texts, in my opinion, do point to God, but they weren't authored by God. Just my opinion though. Hope this helps a bit.

Answer 3

40 different authors wrote the Bible with God's inspiration.

The first five books of the Old Testament were written down by Moses. The authors of the rest of the Old Testament are usually noted in either the Footnotes or introduction in many versions of the Bible.

Many of the New Testament books were penned by Paul and Timothy. The authors are usually noted for them as well. The book of Hebrews is one that has always been questionable as to who the actual author was.

The Bible was put into chapters and verses much later.

Answer 4

The word Bible means library. There sixty six books in the Christian/protestant Bible, thirty nine in the old testament and twenty seven in the new. They were written over a period of approximately a thousand years. Genesis credited to Moses was a group of stories the slaves in Egypt about their Ancestors. Jesus called it the time of the patriarks. It is not hard to see that the God of Abraham was not the God of Moses wrote Exodus and Leviticus. Numbers and Deuteronomy were written after the exile in Babylon which ended in 458bc. Job was written first. There were tablets found when Babylonia was excavated bearing parts of Job. Once again not the God of Exodus. It was most likely a play.
I could go on but I don't think I I have enough space.
The New Testament was not in existence before the fourth century. Most of it are letters from someone calling himself Paul. Who claimed that Jesus had spoke directly to him. But he abandons the teachings of Jesus. We know this that there was no Jewish persecution of Christian which he claims to be part of. Rome would never of allowed it. Luke wrote the book named after them and Acts to give credence to these letters but his knowledge of events was wrong. He disagreed with the other gospels on the death of Judas. He also missed the date of Jesus birth by four years. It was the Catholic that put these together and the common person did not have access to them for over a thousand years. Not much of it is relibale.

Answer 5

The previous answers are all good. I would just like to add that the first person to put the books of the Bible into a complete book of a different language was the scholar Jerome starting in 382 AD, when he wrote the Latin Vulgate. Later on in the early 1500's a scholar named Erasmus wrote the first complete Greek text New Testament Bible after studying the oldest and most accurate manuscripts. Erasmus wished to preserve the accuracy of the original text and correct misstranslations that occured in the Latin Vulgate. Erasmus' Greek Text (Textus Receptus) is what great writers such as Tyndal, Wycliff, Matthew, and King James Scholars used to create their English Version Bibles.

Answer 6

No one knows who wrote most of the books of the Old Testament.

Answer 7

It is not so much important who wrote the Bible/ the Book/.
But if you'd like to know it was written by many authors in the Middle Ages with the sources and knowledge from the ancient Shumers / the first great civilization/ from Mesopotamia 4000years BC.

Answer 8

St. Jerome compiled the first translation from the various authors into one language.

That is as close as you will come to finding an author since no one really knows who most of the books new and old testament were written by.

Answer 9

The OT is a compilation of stories told over the campfire and rituals taken from other cultures. The creation of the earth Sodomon and Gomorrah were taken from the Sumerian tables, which pre date the OT. The NT was compiled from 80 or more different writings of people who stood on the street corner preaching. They voted on what to include and exclude. Virtually all of it was written 20 to 300 years after Christ. So what he did is anybodies guess. They excluded the gospels from the apostles they didn´t like.

Answer 10

The Bible is a compilation of many authors. For example Moses wrote the Torah...the first five books of the Bible...And also Paul wrote a majority of the books in the NT.