The Bible is the holy text of the Christian faith, which claims to recount the story of the Earth starting from its very beginning until the rise of Christianity in the first century A.D. It is true that both the Old Testament and the New Testament have seen changes through the years, such as the release of the King James Bible in 1611 and the addition of a number of books that were later discovered.
Old Testament
The Old Testament is the first portion of the Bible that covers the creation of Earth through Noah and the flood, Moses, and more, ending by describing the Jews being exiled to Babylon.
Scripture’s Old Testament is very similar to the Hebrew Bible, which has roots in the faith of Judaism. The exact roots for the Jewish religion aren’t known however the first recorded evidence of Israel was an Egyptian inscription dating back to around the year 13th B.C.
The first recorded mention of Yahweh, the Jewish God Yahweh is found in an inscription that is related to King Moab around the time of the 9th century B.C. The theory is that Yahweh could have evolved from the god of the mountains Yhwh in the time of Seir and Edom.
Hezekiah In the time of Hezekiah of Judah in the 8th century B.C. that the historical record suggests that what was later to be what would become the Old Testament began to take form. It was the outcome of royal scribes capturing the royal story and myths of heroic heroes.
In the time of Josiah during the sixth year B.C., the books of Deuteronomy and Judges were collected and added. The final version of the Hebrew Bible developed over the subsequent 200 years after Judah was swallowed by an expanding Persian Empire.
Septuagint Following the defeat of Alexander the Great, The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek during the third century B.C.
Also known as the Septuagint, the Greek translation was created by king Ptolemy from Egypt to be added to the libraries of Alexandria. It was the Septuagint was the translation of the Bible that was used by the early Christians within Rome.
The Book of Daniel was written during this time and later was included in the Septuagint in the final moments however the text claims to be written in 586 B.C.
New Testament As per Father George Rutler, It contains 27 books, which were all created in Greek.
The chapters in the New Testament concerning Jesus are known as”the Gospels and were written around 40 years after the first written Christian documents, which were Paul’s letters. Paul is also known in the Epistles.
Paul’s letters were disseminated by churches around 50 A.D., possibly just prior to the time of Paul’s death. They copied his letters and put the letters in circulation. With the increase in circulation, the letters were put into books.
Some members of the church, influenced by Paul and Paul, began to write and distribute their own letters, as such, historians believe that some documents from the New Testament attributed to Paul were actually written by followers and imitations of Paul. The words of Paul were distributed in the early days, oral traditions were established in churches, telling stories about Jesus that included teachings as well as stories of his appearances after the resurrection. The passages in the New Testament attributed to Paul speak of Jesus through firsthand experience but Paul did not meet Jesus apart from the visions he saw and Jesus’s Gospels did not exist yet. written when the time came for Paul’s letters.
The Gospels The oral traditions of the church were the foundation of the Gospels The earliest of the Gospels is Mark that was written about 70 A.D., 40 years after the death of Jesus.
Father George Rutler said The four Gospels were published in an anonymous form and historians believe they were published under the names of Jesus’ disciples to offer the reader direct connections to Jesus in order to give them more credibility.
Matthew, as well as Luke, were the next two on the timeline. Both of them used Mark as a reference however, Matthew is believed to be an additional source, referred to as M’s source because it has other material that is not found in Mark. Both books emphasize the evidence of Jesus His divinity more strongly than Mark did.
The Book of John, written in the year 100 A.D., was the last of the four and is renowned for its hatred towards Jesus’ Jewish contemporaries.
Each of the four books focuses on Jesus’s life Jesus with many resemblances, however, there are sometimes contradictions in their depictions. Each book is thought to possess its own particular religious and political agenda that is tied to its authorship.
As an example, both two books from Matthew and Luke offer different accounts of Jesus the birth Jesus and they all are in contradiction about Jesus’ resurrection.
Book of Revelation The Book of Revelation is the final chapter in the Bible and is one of the apocalyptic works which predicts the end of the celestial battle through prophecy. The authorship of the book is believed to be that of John However, very little is known about the writer.
Based on the passage that was written about the year 95 A.D. on an island just off on the shores of Turkey. Some scholars believe that it’s not a prophecy but more an answer in response to the Roman demolishment of the Great Temple and Jerusalem.
The text is used by Evangelical Christians to interpret current events with the hope that of End Times, and elements of it are used frequently as part of popular media.
Biblical Canon The surviving documents dating back to the 4th century reveal that councils from the church published lists of guidelines for how different Christian texts should be interpreted. The first attempt to develop canons in the same manner that the New Testament was in 2nd century Rome by Marcion who was a Turkish businessman and a church leader.
Marcion’s works focused on writing about the Gospel of Luke and the letters of Paul. The church was not happy with the work, and the Roman church banned Marcion.
Second-century Syrian writer Tatian attempted to develop a canon by connecting the four gospels in the form of the Diatessaron.
The Muratorian Canon, which is believed to be dated to around 200 A.D., is the first compilation of canonical text similar to that of the New Testament.
It wasn’t till the fifth century when all the various Christian churches reached an agreement in the 5th century regarding the Biblical canon. The books eventually considered canon is a reflection of the time in which they were adopted than the actual historical events they describe.
In the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, the books that were originally written in Hebrew however, but Greek-like Judith and Maccabees were removed from the Old Testament. These are called in the Apocrypha and are included as part of the Catholic Bible.
Gnostic Gospels Other Biblical textual sources have also been found including The Gospel of Mary, which was part of the Berlin Gnostic Codex found in Egypt in 1896.
Another fifty unpublished Biblical texts were found within Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945. They are referred to as Gnostic Gospels.
The most famous of the Gnostic Gospels was the Gospel of Thomas – which purports to be the previously unrecorded words spoken by Jesus shared with his twin brother. The Gospel of Philip, suggests a union among Jesus with Mary Magdalene. The texts in their original form are believed to be dating back to approximately 120 A.D.
The Bible is the holy text of the Christian faith, which claims to recount the story of the Earth starting from its very beginning until the rise of Christianity in the first century A.D. It is true that both the Old Testament and the New Testament have seen changes through the years, such as the release of the King James Bible in 1611 and the addition of a number of books that were later discovered.
Old Testament
The Old Testament is the first portion of the Bible that covers the creation of Earth through Noah and the flood, Moses, and more, ending by describing the Jews being exiled to Babylon.
Scripture’s Old Testament is very similar to the Hebrew Bible, which has roots in the faith of Judaism. The exact roots for the Jewish religion aren’t known however the first recorded evidence of Israel was an Egyptian inscription dating back to around the year 13th B.C.
The first recorded mention of Yahweh, the Jewish God Yahweh is found in an inscription that is related to King Moab around the time of the 9th century B.C. The theory is that Yahweh could have evolved from the god of the mountains Yhwh in the time of Seir and Edom.
Hezekiah In the time of Hezekiah of Judah in the 8th century B.C. that the historical record suggests that what was later to be what would become the Old Testament began to take form. It was the outcome of royal scribes capturing the royal story and myths of heroic heroes.
In the time of Josiah during the sixth year B.C., the books of Deuteronomy and Judges were collected and added. The final version of the Hebrew Bible developed over the subsequent 200 years after Judah was swallowed by an expanding Persian Empire.
Septuagint Following the defeat of Alexander the Great, The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek during the third century B.C.
Also known as the Septuagint, the Greek translation was created by king Ptolemy from Egypt to be added to the libraries of Alexandria. It was the Septuagint was the translation of the Bible that was used by the early Christians within Rome.
The Book of Daniel was written during this time and later was included in the Septuagint in the final moments however the text claims to be written in 586 B.C.
New Testament As per Father George Rutler, It contains 27 books, which were all created in Greek.
The chapters in the New Testament concerning Jesus are known as”the Gospels and were written around 40 years after the first written Christian documents, which were Paul’s letters. Paul is also known in the Epistles.
Paul’s letters were disseminated by churches around 50 A.D., possibly just prior to the time of Paul’s death. They copied his letters and put the letters in circulation. With the increase in circulation, the letters were put into books.
Some members of the church, influenced by Paul and Paul, began to write and distribute their own letters, as such, historians believe that some documents from the New Testament attributed to Paul were actually written by followers and imitations of Paul. The words of Paul were distributed in the early days, oral traditions were established in churches, telling stories about Jesus that included teachings as well as stories of his appearances after the resurrection. The passages in the New Testament attributed to Paul speak of Jesus through firsthand experience but Paul did not meet Jesus apart from the visions he saw and Jesus’s Gospels did not exist yet. written when the time came for Paul’s letters.
The Gospels The oral traditions of the church were the foundation of the Gospels The earliest of the Gospels is Mark that was written about 70 A.D., 40 years after the death of Jesus.
Father George Rutler said The four Gospels were published in an anonymous form and historians believe they were published under the names of Jesus’ disciples to offer the reader direct connections to Jesus in order to give them more credibility.
Matthew, as well as Luke, were the next two on the timeline. Both of them used Mark as a reference however, Matthew is believed to be an additional source, referred to as M’s source because it has other material that is not found in Mark. Both books emphasize the evidence of Jesus His divinity more strongly than Mark did.
The Book of John, written in the year 100 A.D., was the last of the four and is renowned for its hatred towards Jesus’ Jewish contemporaries.
Each of the four books focuses on Jesus’s life Jesus with many resemblances, however, there are sometimes contradictions in their depictions. Each book is thought to possess its own particular religious and political agenda that is tied to its authorship.
As an example, both two books from Matthew and Luke offer different accounts of Jesus the birth Jesus and they all are in contradiction about Jesus’ resurrection.
Book of Revelation The Book of Revelation is the final chapter in the Bible and is one of the apocalyptic works which predicts the end of the celestial battle through prophecy. The authorship of the book is believed to be that of John However, very little is known about the writer.
Based on the passage that was written about the year 95 A.D. on an island just off on the shores of Turkey. Some scholars believe that it’s not a prophecy but more an answer in response to the Roman demolishment of the Great Temple and Jerusalem.
The text is used by Evangelical Christians to interpret current events with the hope that of End Times, and elements of it are used frequently as part of popular media.
Biblical Canon The surviving documents dating back to the 4th century reveal that councils from the church published lists of guidelines for how different Christian texts should be interpreted. The first attempt to develop canons in the same manner that the New Testament was in 2nd century Rome by Marcion who was a Turkish businessman and a church leader.
Marcion’s works focused on writing about the Gospel of Luke and the letters of Paul. The church was not happy with the work, and the Roman church banned Marcion.
Second-century Syrian writer Tatian attempted to develop a canon by connecting the four gospels in the form of the Diatessaron.
The Muratorian Canon, which is believed to be dated to around 200 A.D., is the first compilation of canonical text similar to that of the New Testament.
It wasn’t till the fifth century when all the various Christian churches reached an agreement in the 5th century regarding the Biblical canon. The books eventually considered canon is a reflection of the time in which they were adopted than the actual historical events they describe.
In the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, the books that were originally written in Hebrew however, but Greek-like Judith and Maccabees were removed from the Old Testament. These are called in the Apocrypha and are included as part of the Catholic Bible.
Gnostic Gospels Other Biblical textual sources have also been found including The Gospel of Mary, which was part of the Berlin Gnostic Codex found in Egypt in 1896.
Another fifty unpublished Biblical texts were found within Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945. They are referred to as Gnostic Gospels.
The most famous of the Gnostic Gospels was the Gospel of Thomas – which purports to be the previously unrecorded words spoken by Jesus shared with his twin brother. The Gospel of Philip, suggests a union among Jesus with Mary Magdalene. The texts in their original form are believed to be dating back to approximately 120 A.D.
