The Writing Of The Holy Bible http://www.newholybible.org

The Holy Bible begins with a collection of ancient writings. The Holy Bible contains 66 individual books that were written by 40 known authors. These books were written over a period of 1,600 years. It’s estimated that the 39 books of the Old Testament were written somewhere between 1500 to 400 B.C. The 27 books that make up the New Testament were written between 40 A.D. and 90 A.D.

The only difference between the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Bible is the order in which they are laid out. The Christian Old Testament was translated from Hebrew which was the language these books were originally written in. There were some that were written in Aramaic. The New Testament from the Holy Bible was originally written in Greek.

The Jews used leather scrolls and tablets to record the historical accounts that happened over the centuries. The people that did the writings included kings, prophets, leaders and shepherds.

In the early part of the 1400′s BC, a man named Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. These fives books are commonly known as Torah or the Law. For more than 1000 years after Moses, the Jewish people kept an accurate record of the times. They referred to these writers as scribes.

In the 400′s BC the rabbis gathered together and put in order the historical writings going back to and including the Torah. After putting these scriptures together, the Rabbis then became aware of the fact that they had a set of books that were the energized and pure power of God.

They also put the books from the Holy Bible in order by their topic. The main topics were The Law which is known as Torah, then there’s the Prophets known as Nebiim and then there are the Writings which is Ketubim. You then take the first letters of these three Hebrew words which are T, N and K. These three letters form the word Tanakh, which translates to the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew Bible was translated to Greek sometime in the mid 200′s BC. 70 Jewish scholars performed this translation in Alexandria, Egypt. They also changed the order of the books to what we know of today in the common Bible referring to the Old Testament. Genesis to Esther is known as Historical, Job to the Song of Songs is known as poetic and Isaiah to Malachi is known as prophetic.

The Jews were very, very strict when it came down to copying the scriptures. They had a precise system they used for counting the letters, the words and the paragraphs to make sure that there were no errors made. As a matter of fact, if one error was made, they would destroy the whole scroll.

As a scribe, they would dedicate their whole life to these holy books making sure that the accuracy of these copies were not compromised. The scribes kept up this tradition until the printing press was invented in the 1400′s. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, they matched them up to the writings of the scribes and amazingly these scrolls proved just how accurate the scribes really were.

Jesus was born around 3BC. He probably started His ministry about 30 years later. One of the things that Jesus did teach and most certainly proclaimed was that He was not here to make any changes to the Law. He stated that He did not come here change not even one dot or tittle of the Jewish Scriptures, but that He was here to fulfill the scriptures as they were written. Everything that was written in Torah, the Psalms and that was taught by the Prophets was to be fulfilled that concerned Him. If you would like to read about it, it can be found in the book of Luke.

There were many eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life and ministry. To name a few we have, Matthew, John, Mark, Paul, Jude, Peter, Luke and James. The ones that were just mentioned were actual authors of what we know of today as the New Testament. They are responsible for the books, the Gospel and the letters that appear in our Holy Bible. The writers of the New Testament actually quoted from the Old Testament.

The original writings of the New Testament were translated from Greek to Latin sometime in the 200′s AD. In the late 4th century, Constantine called in all the religious leaders and had them decide what writings were to be merged together into one book so that the scriptures could be protected. Up until this time, there were a lot of religious cults that had formed and so by protecting the authenticity of these writings, they had to separate the true from the false. When they were through, they had 27 books that were canonized.

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