To everyone, How was the Bible passed along?

Question

How exactly was the writings of the Bible passed on from one writer to the other? It was written over a period of 1400 years so how did the next writer find the previous guys work and link his own work.

Answer 1

There was this guy named Gideon who lived in a motel. Oh, nevermind.

Answer 2

Leaders of the Jewish faith decided on the 46 Old Testament texts which formed their Scripture - the Scripture used by Jesus and the Apostles. The Catholic Church, at the end of the 4th Century, studied all texts that were being used in any local Catholic churches throughout the known world, and defined once and for all time the Canon of Scripture that forms the Christian Bible - 73 texts known with certainty to be divinely inspired - the original 46 Jewish texts, plus 27 texts from apostolic times.

Once the Holy Bible was thus brought into existence, it was perpetuated through hand-lettered copies laboriously prepared by Catholic monks in monasteries. This continued until the invention of the printing press allowed the Scriptures to be placed in the hands of the common man. The Bible was the first book printed on the printing press by its inventor Johannes Guttenberg, a Catholic. But even after printed copies of the Bible became available, the preaching of the Church was the principle way people learned the truths of the Scriptures, as had been the case since apostolic times, since 95% of Europeans in the Middle ages were illiterate.

Answer 3

From a non sarcastic point of view. Oral tradition, until Moses wrote at God's direction. Then men of God were moved by the Holy Spirit to write His revelation of Himself to man. Scribes were professional copyist who hand wrote word for word each book on parchment called scrolls. The scrolls were kept in clay containers and used when the priest read from them in worship.

The amazing thing about the Bible, contrary to some views, is the accuracy and continutiey of men over thousands of years with no attempt to put it all together nice and neat like we have. There was no linking effort, except by the Holy Spirit perhaps.

Some of the New Testament was actually letters written by Apostles to various local churches.

Answer 4

It was passed through scribes who tried to copy the words but failed in many cases to make accurate translations from a sometimes unknown language. Did you know that the old texts didn’t even have spaces between the words, for 1/2 literate scribes it was quite a struggle, this is why the bible is so flawed and hard to read. If your really interested read "Misquoting Jesus" By: Bart D. Ehrman, very good read, recommended to my by JersyRick!!!

Answer 5

"Now, since The Biggest Secret came out, and I told the story in there of how these bloodlines came out of the Near and Middle East, how the blueprint of control by religion was formed in Babylon, where their Trinity of Nimrod, Tammuz the Sun, and Queen Semiramis the female, there was mirror in terms of the stories of the later Jesus stories, and many other stories in other cultures that relate to exactly the same stories using different heros, since I wrote in the book that the Gospels were actually written by a Roman Aristocratic family called the Pisos, Piso. Since I wrote in the book that these stories were eventually taken and turned into a religion by, most notably, the Roman Empire, Emperor Constantine the Great, at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., and, of course, what came out of that, eventually, was the Roman Church which became the Christian religion." - David Icke

Answer 6

Which part? The OT was passed down by the Masorites through a precise copying process, and the NT by the Greek church. There are also many ancient documents of both still extant.

Answer 7

I think for a while it was just word of mouth. And of course we all remember that game we used to play in elementary school, right? The one where we would pass along a message by whisper and see how much it changed by the time it got to the last person.

Answer 8

The each wrote about different things, mostly events they themselves witnessed or were told of by God (Moses).

If you are asking how were they transcribed, this occurred after the Babylonian Captivity (much was lost due to the captivity) and again during the time of the Maccabees (much was lost due to the destruction of the temple).

Answer 9

It is pretty clear the Jews and Catholics spent considerable time trying to prove the existence of a god. In doing so they have made so many mistakes and errors it turned into a joke.

Answer 10

Oral tradition until they learned to write by which time they had forgotten much. Then they revised and expugated stuff that did not fit the politics of the binders.