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The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1]
Apr 17, 2024 · Explore the fascinating question, 'Who wrote the Old Testament?' in this insightful article. Delve into the historical, scholarly debates, and the diverse authorship behind the Bible's foundational texts, from the Pentateuch to the Prophets and Wisdom literature.
- Old Testament: The Single Author Theory
- The Old Testament: Various Schools of Authors
- New Testament: Who Wrote The Gospels?
The Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, narrates the history of the people of Israel over about a millennium, beginning with God’s creation of the world and humankind, and contains the stories, laws and moral lessons that form the basis of religious life for both Jews and Christians. For at least 1,000 years, both Jewish and Christian tradition held th...
To explain the Bible’s contradictions, repetitions and general idiosyncrasies, most scholars today agree that the stories and laws it contains were communicated orally, through prose and poetry, over centuries. Starting around the 7th century B.C., different groups, or schools, of authors wrote them down at different times, before they were at some...
Just as the Old Testament chronicles the story of the Israelites in the millennium or so leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ, the New Testament records Jesus’s life, from his birth and teachings to his death and later resurrection, a narrative that forms the fundamental basis of Christianity. Beginning around A.D. 70, about four decades after J...
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Jan 2, 2015 · Who wrote the Old Testament? The first five books of the Old Testament – the ‘Torah’ or the books of the Law of Moses – are traditionally attributed to Moses himself. Many Biblical scholars, however, believe the first five books (often simply called the 'Law') were written down over a much longer period of time and were only finalised ...
- 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.
There was no single author of the Bible. Rather, it was written by over 40 different people, across three continents, over nearly 2,000 years. These people came from very different backgrounds, from scholars to shepherds; kings to commoners.
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Apr 12, 2023 · There are 39 books or collected documents in the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, written mostly by Moses, and then, prophets, Kings David and Solomon, priests, and scriveners or scribes.
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