Bible, the Holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. The arrangements of the Jewish and Chritians canons differ considerably. The Origins of the Bible is still unidentified. When was it written and Who wrote it?
The Word of God has been the foundation for Judaism, Catholic Christianity and Protestant Christianity. These three each have a different canon or set of books: the Tanakh containing 24 books, the Catholic Canon containing 73 books, and the Protestant Canon containing 66 books.
Who wrote it and When?
The 66 books of the Bible were written over 1,500 years by more than 40 authors.
These books are the foundations of the Jewish faith and central to Christianity. The last book of the first part, known as the Old Testament, was finished about 330 years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
The history of the New Testament
The second part of the Bible – the New Testament – The New Testament focuses on the life, teaching of Jesus Christ and the early Christian Church. It was finished around 90AD. The structure of the Bible that we have today was finalised around 400 AD.
The last 27 books of the Bible, known as the New Testament. The first was begun around 50AD; the last finished in 90AD. By the 2nd century, the Gospels, the book of Acts and Paul’s 13 letters were being circulated around Christian churches.
By around 200AD there was consensus about the list and it was finalised at church conferences around 400 AD. The oldest fragments of the New Testament manuscripts date back to 130AD; the oldest complete scripts are from 350AD.
Irfan Rashid
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