![]() ![]() Traditionally, Christians and Jews dated the earliest biblical writings to the time of Moses, which might have been in the mid- to late second millennium B.C.E. There are many guesses about when people began writing the books that are now found in the Hebrew Bible. Many authors in very different places and times wrote and edited the books that constitute the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament all told, this process extended over a thousand-year period. Each biblical book has a unique history and took a distinctive route on its way to inclusion in the Bible. ![]() The word Bible comes from the Greek word biblia, which means “books.” This is a more accurate description of what the Bible is-a collection of many books, like a library. The Bible we know today took a long journey through many eras, communities, and places before it became the sacred text we recognize today. We tend to think of the Bible as a book-and we’re not entirely wrong-but the Bible wasn’t always bound between two covers. ![]()
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