Authors of the bible?

Question

Well, I can't seem to find any solid information about any of the authors of the bible. I'm kind of freaking out here, anybody have links ? I'm just getting a bunch of heresy and its a question I never thought of before today.

Answer 1

It's folly to think of the New and Old testaments as books in themselves. They were originally lots of notes and stories peaced together over time. Too often people get this image of the apostles sitting down and writing it all under a night light.

The gospels (or new covenant/testament) was taught by Jesus and written down by Matthew, Mark, Peter, Luke, and John. Each of them traveled far and wide to talk to others who met Jesus too. Much of it consists of messages exchanged between the apostles and the early churches - and Jesus' family, friends and stuff like that. Other parts, like revelations for example, were transcribed by God himself to (supposable) John.

Jesus died around 30 AD but the gospels were finished through the period 50-70 AD. The apostles would have started traveling shortly after Jesus' death, taking about fifteen years to do so. When finished they had to add everything and piece their notes together so you can imagine that took quite a while. We know it couldn't have been finished after 70AD because many of Jesus' prophecies (the sacking of Jerusalem in 70AD) became fulfilled and they weren't included, meaning it happened after they were finished.

The Old Testament (Old covenant) is too a collection of different Godly works pieced together as they happened over a course of one thousand years or more. The writers' individual stories are usually written down by the central character or one of his colleagues. For example, Moses wrote Exodus himself, and other biblical characters wrote their own stories.

It's important to note that Christians don't exactly follow the Old Covenant. This is because the old Covenant (or contract) had been broken by man, and thus canceled. God professed he would one day come to earth and create a New Covenant (contract) with man. And then he came in the body of Jesus Christ and created the new contract by his word alone. And that's how we have the New Testament.

Although Jesus himself retained some laws from the Old Testament, like the Ten commandments.

The Jews didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah and that's why they don't follow the New Testament. They still follow the Old Testament, believing the real Messiah will one day come to lay down the new law. The clocks been ticking quite a while now.

Answer 2

Actually no man authored the Bible, but many men were used to pen the words. As to who they all were... a few from the New Testament are Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. I confess I don't know much about the writters of the Old Testament, but the ones I do know are Moses, David, Solomon, and go down the list of books and pretty much the ones with a person's name was written by that person.

Answer 3

God is the Author, but here is who he got to pen the various books...

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy = Moses - 1400 B.C.
Joshua = Joshua - 1350 B.C.
Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel = Samuel / Nathan / Gad - 1000 - 900 B.C.
1 Kings, 2 Kings = Jeremiah - 600 B.C.
1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah = Ezra - 450 B.C.
Esther = Mordecai - 400 B.C.
Job = Moses - 1400 B.C.
Psalms = several different authors, mostly David - 1000 - 400 B.C.
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon = Solomon - 900 B.C.
Isaiah = Isaiah - 700 B.C.
Jeremiah, Lamentations = Jeremiah - 600 B.C.
Ezekiel = Ezekiel - 550 B.C.
Daniel = Daniel - 550 B.C.
Hosea = Hosea - 750 B.C.
Joel = Joel - 850 B.C.
Amos = Amos - 750 B.C.
Obadiah = Obadiah - 600 B.C.
Jonah = Jonah - 700 B.C.
Micah = Micah - 700 B.C.
Nahum = Nahum - 650 B.C.
Habakkuk = Habakkuk - 600 B.C.
Zephaniah = Zephaniah - 650 B.C.
Haggai = Haggai - 520 B.C.
Zechariah = Zechariah - 500 B.C.
Malachi = Malachi - 430 B.C.
Matthew = Matthew - A.D. 55
Mark = John Mark - A.D. 50
Luke = Luke - A.D. 60
John = John - A.D. 90
Acts = Luke - A.D. 65
Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon = Paul - A.D. 50-70
Hebrews = unknown, best guesses are Paul, Luke, Barnabas, or Apollos - 65 A.D.
James = James - A.D. 45
1 Peter, 2 Peter = Peter - A.D. 60
1 John, 2 John, 3 John = John - A.D. 90
Jude = Jude - A.D. 60
Revelation = John - A.D. 90

Answer 4

The Bible is a collection of works from different authors over many centuries. It's hard to get an actual list of "authors" for the Hebrew scriptures alone. One thing's for sure though, a lot of the books are pseudopigraphic, so you can't always go by the name that's on the book.

Answer 5

It's slowly disappearing out of History books etc. Get "The Spirit Filled Bible". It gives you a lot of facts and then go to the En Gedi site too.

To check historically, get to
the Library and read some older documents. Meanwhile I will look up some stuff for you, but can't promise a deadline when I'll get it on Yahoo. Cause I am just so busy at the moment.

Answer 6

Tell me you mean Hear say, not Heresy?

If you are looking for the authors of the bible, you cant knock what you find.

I think History channel does a special on that every once in awhile. look up connstantine, he prevailed over the "which boks do we put in the bible?"

Answer 7

THere are 40 authors all together. Most have names some anonymous. historians and such.

Moses is credited for the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy which are called the Pentetuch. These books cover creation to his own death at the end of Deuteronomy. It's been suggested that another person, who took over the spiritual leadership of the Israelites, completed Deuteronomy.

The books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth are historical documents written before or during the reign of King David presumably by priestly historians.

The Psalms were written by King David, Moses, Solomon, the sons of Korah, the sons of Asaph and Ethan the Ezrahite. There are also some Psalms that were written anonymously.

Proverbs, Song of Solomon, and Ecclesiastes were written by King Solomon, though chapters 30 and 31 of Proverbs were written by Agur and Lemuel respectively.

Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Micah, Nahum and Zephaniah were the prophets who penned the books with their names.

The writers of Samuel, Kings, Esther, and Job are unnamed.

Habakkuk, Joel, Obadiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi were written by the prophets' named respectively.

Jeremiah wrote both Lamentations and Jeremiah while Ezra wrote Ezra, Nehemiah and possibly Chronicles.

In the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote their gospels and Luke also wrote the book of Acts. Paul is responsible for the Pauline Letters which are Romans, 1st Corinthians, 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1st Thessalonians, 2nd Thessalonians, 1st Timothy, 2nd Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.

Peter of the Twelve Disciples wrote 1st and 2nd Peter. John, the Disciple that Jesus loved, wrote 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John and also Revelation.

The book of James has been credited to James the brother of Jesus and the book of Jude was written by Jude the bother of James. Hebrews has been ascribed to the Apostle Paul but is generally considered to have been written anonymously.

THere you have it :)

Answer 8

A lot of Bibles have information in them about their authors. If you want to know of one in particular, E mail me and I will send what I have.

Answer 9

God inspired 40 different men over a period of about 1,600 years to write the Bible

Answer 10

try a good old fashion family bible.
Each book of the bible usually starts with a page or so of the info you are looking for