How We Got the Bible
what is the Bible? There are many other questions that are involved with what the Bible is. People have different views about the Bible. A major question that some people have about the Bible is how we got it. Within the question of how we got it is how was it produced and transmitted? Some people may also wonder when and why it was written. Others wonder how it was written at all since ancient Israel was predominantly non-literate before the 7th century (Schniedewing 2). We tend to think of the Bible as a single book but it actually is more than just a book. According to Harris, the Bible is a collection of many individual books written over a period of 1,100 years (Harris 2). Three main important questions about the Bible include, how we got the Bible, how it was produced and transmitted, why some books were included but not others, and why there are several different canons of the Old Testament even today.
How We Got The Bible
Christian Bibles may have different books or have different versions, but they all still consist of an Old Testament and a New Testament. It was originally composed in Hebrew. There are different versions of the Bible for different denominations. There are also different sections that appear in some editions of the Bible but not others. The two main sections the Bible is divided into are the Old Testament and New Testament. The Old Testament was written by and for the Jewish community and contains material composed between the 12th and 2nd century BC (Harris 2). Most scholars refer to the Old Testament as the Hebrew Bible because most of its contents were composed in Hebrew (Harris 2). There are four different Old Testaments, including the Hebrew Old Testament, Greek Septuagint, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Old Testament, and the Protestant Old Testament. According to Brittle, Christians call it the “Old Testament” because the word “testament” is an old way of referring to a