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  1. Divine authorship. The rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud held that God wrote the Torah in heaven in letters of black fire on parchment of white fire before the world was created, and that Moses received it by divine dictation. [3] The early Church Fathers agreed that the scriptures were inspired or dictated by God, but not on which writings were ...

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  2. Who wrote the Bible? God, or humans? Have you ever heard Christians refer to the Bible as ‘the word of God’? This doesn’t mean they think God wrote it personally or dictated it directly from heaven. Instead they believe that God inspired the human authors who put pen to paper. It’s difficult to know exactly what this inspiration looked ...

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    • Moses (Genesis | Exodus | Leviticus | Numbers | Deuteronomy | Psalms) Moses is the prophet who leads Israel from slavery in Egypt to the edge of the promised land.
    • Ezra (1 & 2 Chronicles | Ezra) Ezra is born long, long after Moses. But like the ancient prophet, Ezra leads a group of Israelites from exile in another nation back to the promised land.
    • Nehemiah (Nehemiah) Nehemiah is a cupbearer to the king of Persia when he gets some disturbing news: his countrymen back in Jerusalem are in dire straits, and the city is in shambles (Neh 1:3).
    • David (Psalms) You’ve all heard of this guy. He’s the shepherd boy who killed Goliath the giant. He’s the war-hero king who delivered Israel from her enemies and established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
  4. v. t. e. The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. As of September 2023 all of the Bible has been translated into 736 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,658 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,264 other ...

  5. Oct 23, 2023 · The Bible is a collection of sixty-six books composed and compiled over 2,000 years by forty authors on three continents. Here we research when the Old Testament and New Testament were written, compiled, the original language, and the history of the English Bible.

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