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The Holy Bible begins with a collection of ancient

writings. The Holy Bible contains 66 individual books

that were written by 40 known authors. These books

were written over a period of 1,600 years. Its estimatedthat the 39 books of the Old Testament were written

somewhere between 1500 to 400 B.C. The 27 books

that make up the New Testament were written between

40 A.D. and 90 A.D.

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The only difference between the Christian OldTestament and the Jewish Bible is the order inwhich they are laid out. The Christian Old

Testament was translated from Hebrew which wasthe language these books were originally writtenin. There were some that were written in Aramaic.The New Testament from the Holy Bible was

originally written in Greek.

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The Jews used leather scrolls and tablets to record

the historical accounts that happened over thecenturies. The people that did the writingsincluded kings, prophets, leaders and shepherds.

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In the early part of the 1400s BC, a man namedMoses wrote the first five books of the Old

Testament. These fives books are commonlyknown as Torah or the Law. For more than 1000years after Moses, the Jewish people kept anaccurate record of the times. They referred to thesewriters as scribes.

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In the 400s BC the rabbis gathered together andput in order the historical writings going back to

and including the Torah. After putting thesescriptures together, the Rabbis then became awareof the fact that they had a set of books that werethe energized and pure power of God.

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They also put the books from the Holy Bible inorder by their topic. The main topics were TheLaw which is known as Torah, then theres theProphets known as Nebiim and then there are theWritings which is Ketubim. You then take the firstletters of these three Hebrew words which are T, Nand K. These three letters form the word Tanakh,

which translates to the Hebrew Bible.

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The Hebrew Bible was translated to Greeksometime in the mid 200s BC. 70 Jewish scholarsperformed this translation in Alexandria, Egypt.

They also changed the order of the books to whatwe know of today in the common Bible referringto the Old Testament. Genesis to Esther is knownas Historical, Job to the Song of Songs is known aspoetic and Isaiah to Malachi is known asprophetic.

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The Jews were very, very strict when it came downto copying the scriptures. They had a precisesystem they used for counting the letters, thewords and the paragraphs to make sure that therewere no errors made. As a matter of fact, if oneerror was made, they would destroy the wholescroll.

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As a scribe, they would dedicate their whole life tothese holy books making sure that the accuracy ofthese copies were not compromised. The scribeskept up this tradition until the printing press wasinvented in the 1400s. When the Dead Sea Scrollswere found, they matched them up to the writingsof the scribes and amazingly these scrolls proved

just how accurate the scribes really were.

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Jesus was born around 3BC. He probably startedHis ministry about 30 years later. One of the thingsthat Jesus did teach and most certainly proclaimedwas that He was not here to make any changes tothe Law. He stated that He did not come herechange not even one dot or tittle of the JewishScriptures, but that He was here to fulfill thescriptures as they were written. Everything thatwas written in Torah, the Psalms and that was

taught by the Prophets was to be fulfilled thatconcerned Him. If you would like to read about it,it can be found in the book of Luke.

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There were many eyewitnesses to Jesus life andministry. To name a few we have, Matthew, John,Mark, Paul, Jude, Peter, Luke and James. The ones

that were just mentioned were actual authors ofwhat we know of today as the New Testament.They are responsible for the books, the Gospel andthe letters that appear in our Holy Bible. Thewriters of the New Testament actually quoted

from the Old Testament.

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The original writings of the New Testament weretranslated from Greek to Latin sometime in the200s AD. In the late 4th century, Constantinecalled in all the religious leaders and had them

decide what writings were to be merged togetherinto one book so that the scriptures could beprotected. Up until this time, there were a lot ofreligious cults that had formed and so byprotecting the authenticity of these writings, they

had to separate the true from the false. When theywere through, they had 27 books that werecanonized.

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