Are there any bible verses about Writing?

Question

i need it for an assignment. thanks!

Answer 1

I can't think of any particularly interesting Bible verses, but I do know of a very interesting reference to writing in a different text that the Jews considered sacred, (and apparently so did Jesus because he quoted from it in one of the gospels).

This is the Book of Enoch. Enoch was a prophet and the grandfather of Noah. The Book of Enoch is largely about the all the horrible things that were happening prior to the Deluge, (the flood from the Noah's ark story).

According to Enoch, some angels rebelled against God and came to Earth where they interbred with human women, who gave birth to giants. Enoch talks about many skills that these angels taught humanity and about how this knowledge caused humans to experience great evil.

In one part of the Book of Enoch, he mentions that writing was taught to mankind by one of these angels. Strangely enough, despite the fact that Enoch was using writing to record all of these events, he apparently felt that writing was a very bad thing. Here is the peculiar passage where he talks about the art of writing:

8. And the fourth was named Pênêmûe: he taught the children of men the bitter and the sweet, and he taught them all the secrets of their wisdom.
9. And he instructed mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity and until this day.
10. For men were not created for such a purpose, to give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink.
11. For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could not have taken hold of them, but through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power it is consuming me.


Weird huh? He doesn't explain exactly how the writing was "consuming" him, but it sounds rather ominous to me. He seems to be saying that the art of writing is somehow the real reason that humans die.

I don't know if this passage will be something you can write about. But, I have always thought it was extremely interesting.

The link below leads to a website that has the text I mentioned.

Answer 2

There's always the scholar's verse:
Ecclesiastes 12:12b
"Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh" (RSV, as it was to hand)

Answer 3

errmmm im not sure.

Answer 4

use http://www.biblegateway.com/