describe formation of the bible.who putit together,when,where,how and whatlanguage?what assumption was made?
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Let me give you a bit of background that - although is controversial - is accepted to some extent.\n\nThe first 5 books of the Bible known as the Penteteuch - were "compiled" by Moses - however, I don't agree that he wrote them all. What's accepted is that the Levites and the tribes of Israel wrote different portions - however many Biblical classes will accept that Moses "wrote" them. \n\nThey used Hebrew - in fact, most of the OT is written in Hebrew sans a few written in Aramaic. (I know Daneil was written in Aramaic)\n\nAs for where it was written - this is total conjecture and speculation. \n\nThe NT was written by the apostles - and the latter chapters following the gospel were mostly written by Paul, some Peter with the help of other apostles. \n\nThe Epistles for most part were written by Paul - and when he wrote them is pretty clear - around 50 AD. Revelation is written near 100 AD by John who wrote it on Patmos. \n\nThe NT was written in Greek. \n\nHope that helps.
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It all started waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back to biblical days\nBabel is mentioned in Genesis 10:10 as the home city of Nimrod.\n\n[10] And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. [11] Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, [12] And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. (KJV) \nAccording to Genesis 11:1-9, mankind, after the deluge, travelled from the mountain of the East, where the ark had rested, and settled in 'a plain in the land of Shinar' (or Sennar). Here, they attempted to build a city and a tower whose top might reach unto Heaven, the Tower of Babel.\n\nThe Origin of Languages\nThe all-wise Creator, Jehovah God, has employed language in the heavenly angelic realm. (Job 1:6-12; 1 Corinthians 13:1) When he created humans, he implanted in them a vocabulary and the ability to expand it. There is no evidence of any primitive human language consisting of grunts and growls. On the contrary, consider what the Encyclopædia Britannica explains about Sumerian, the oldest known written language: "The Sumerian verb, with its . . .various prefixes, infixes, and suffixes, presents a very complicated picture."\n\n\nAt Babel, God confused the language\nof rebellious humans\n\nAbout the 20th century B.C.E., contrary to God's command to spread out and "fill the earth," humans made an effort to control all society at the Plains of Shinar, in Mesopotamia, and began building the religious Tower of Babel. Language diversity originated when God confused their common language, thwarting their dangerous and hurtful plans.—Genesis 1:28; 11:1-9.\n\nThe Bible record does not say that all languages descended from the original one. At Shinar, God introduced many new vocabularies and thought patterns, resulting in a variety of languages. Thus, efforts to trace a parent language from which all others developed have been in vain.\n \n\nLanguage is a divine gift. (Exodus 4:11) The fascinating process of change in language shows how flexible this gift is. We may also learn from language that no one group of people is superior to another, for there is no such thing as an inferior language. Just as with other divine gifts, language is equally available to all people, no matter what their culture or the place where they live. Since the very beginning, languages of all peoples have been complete enough to serve their purpose. Each one of them is worthy of respect, regardless of how many people use it.\n\nHistorical and Social Factors\nThe gregarious nature of mankind is reflected in language. Thus, when there is contact between cultures—a common occurrence—the languages of those cultures retain evidence of such contact for generations.\n\nFor instance, through its many words of Arabic origin, Spanish, considered a modified version of Latin, retains a record of the eighth-century Muslim conquest of Spanish territory. The influence of Greek, French, English, and other languages on Spanish can also be traced. Moreover, in the Spanish spoken in America, traces remain of the ancient inhabitants of the continent. For example, Spanish there contains many words from the Nahuatl language of Aztec Central America.\n\nJust as a mother tongue identifies individuals with a certain nation and even with a region, language usage can identify people with a group, such as a profession, a trade, cultural and sports groups, or even criminal organizations. The list is practically endless. Linguists call these special variations jargon or slang or sometimes even a dialect.\n\nHowever, when there are animosities between nations and ethnic or cultural groups, language ceases to be a bridge. It can become a wall that adds to the divisions between people.\n\nThe Future of Languages\nCommunication is a complex matter. On one hand, the modern tendency is toward breaking down linguistic walls, primarily on account of mas
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The bible is something that someone made up.\n\nHell doesnt exist.\nHeaven doesnt exist.\nThere is no God.\n\nThese are my beliefs.. I'm sure you'll receive lots of different responses to that.
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Okay, back in the day when the first set of pagans under Constantine converted to Christianity, a group of clergies and etc...got together and collected all the books every written by those who lived in that era of Jesus.  They sat in a council and decided which books they wanted to include in the bible and which ones they would throw out.  The people who wrote the current books of the bible read many of the ones who were not included, thus leaving us with a half written story of the bible.
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The Logos.\n\nJOHN 1:1\n    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\n\nJOHN 8:58\n    Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.\n\nCOLOSSIANS 1:17\n   And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.\n\n To know more click here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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30 different characters contributed to the bible over a period of around 30 years.  Then it was edited countless times by other characters.  Then rewritten a few times to be "clearer on certain subjects.".\n\nBy the time we got the modern version, there were no original copies left to check the authenticity and accurateness of the text.
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There have been thousands of different versions of the Bible.\nMany books have been edited or dropped over the centuries \nWhat we now call the Bible was asssembled many years after the events described
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You missed the biggest point of all, Man wrote the Bible, It has lost and been added to over thousands of years in translating the bible. God himself is perfect, his Creation's just got a little lop sided is all.
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The simple answer is two-fold. 1. The Bible was written in three languages. 2. No translation is perfect.  Here is the long answer:\n\nThe Bible has been translated numerous times for over two thousand years.  The books which compose the Bible were written in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic.  Obviously, this poses a problem for most people who would like to read the Bible.\n\nAround 285 BC, the Septuagint was created.  The Septuagint was simply a Greek translation of the Old Testament.  Many people of the time could read Greek, and since the New Testament was originally written in Greek, this proved useful.  In approximately 400 AD the Vulgate was produced by Jerome at Bethlehem.  This was a Latin translation of the entire Bible.  Its name comes from the fact that it was written in Vulgar Latin (Vulgar, when used to describe a language simply means that the common person could read and understand it).  The Vulgate was the primary translation used by the Catholic Church until Vatican 2 in the 1960s.\n\nA few other translations, such as the Wycliffe (1380ish AD, English) were written, but with the Church backing only the Vulgate, it wasn't until the Reformation that new translations were seen as necessary.\n\nDuring the Protestant Reformation, reformers believed that it was important for everyone to be able to read the Bible.  Martin Luther created a German Translation that continues to be used today.\n\nAt the same time, in England, a few people began to work on English translations.  Many English translations were written between the years of 1520 and 1610, including the Tyndale, Matthews, and Bishops translations.\n\nIn 1611 the King James Version was produced.  The translators of this version relied on the earlier English translations, but they also studied earlier sources.  Since none of the original texts survived, all translations have had to rely on manuscripts.  The manuscripts of the early books had to be hand-copied by a scribe, and they do deviate from one another slightly in different places.\n\nLater translations, like the NIV, will usually consult the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic transcripts.  In many cases, if you look at the preface of your translation, you can see which manuscripts were used as the primary sources.  The NIV relies more on less common manuscripts than the KJV.\n\nA few final things to consider.  Many words have different meanings in English.  Many of the differences you find are simply word-choice.  Also, translators are not perfect, it is entirely possible that one made a mistake.  Every English translation has at least one mistake somewhere.  In addition to this, the English language has changed over the last 400 years since the KJV was produced.  Modern translations will try to use the current vernacular.\n\nOne of my sources is a KJV Bible that has a section on Bible history, the other is a handbook.  I tried to cite them as correctly as possible, but I was trying to do MLA from memory. (Too lazy to look it up, e-mail if you really want more info on the sources, but this is enough to find them in a library or on the Internet.)
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In written form through the Bible.
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The disicples wrote the bible
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Dear Friends,\n\nRead the Bible together!\n\nYours in Him,\nFrancesois
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Actually, you come very close!  I suggest an excellent book, "Idioms of the Bible", the author's name is beyond me for now.  It was created by  a Bible scholar who is very familiar with both modern and ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, and has done some wonderful research in various areas relating to the Bible and religion.
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hmmmm, this will be good!!\n\nFor: GINEVRA1WEASLEY, how is he pulling things of contexts when it's from your very own Bible? 32 (Bible) Scholars couldn't get it right and I doubt that you'll be able to get it right..
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OK, according to the Bible, the creation of the heavens and the earth was "the beginning". So, we don't know what God was up to before that time (and in most views, this is irrelevant because God is 'timeless').\nWe are given no explanation of where God came from, it is simply assumed that God always has been (no matter what belief system, Evolution, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, or any other, there comes a point where you simply have to say "I don't know where it/He/we came from").\nBack to the Bible ... Since 'the begining' is the creation of heavens and earth, NOTHING (other than God) existed before that time. God then began a process of 'forming' and 'filling' His creation. This process took Him six days. On day one, He created light and separated it from the darkness, calling it one day. This was the forming of the heavens (space/time).\nOn day two, He formed the atmosphere by separating the waters above from the waters beneath.\nOn day three, He begins to fill what He has formed, starting with the earth, separating the water from the land, and filling the land with growing things (plants).\nOn day four, He fills the heavens (above the atmosphere) with the sun, moon, and stars (probably the angels were created on this day as well).\nOn day five, He fills the water with fish (and other water-dwelling creatures), and the firmament (atomosphere) with birds (and other flying creatures)\nOn day six, He filled the land with all land-dwellers and created man in His own image to rule over the earth as the Vice-regent of God. \nOn day Seven, God rested from (stopped) the work of creation.\nNow, Genesis chapter 2 is often mis-understood to be a contradiction of Genesis 1 because of some differences in the order of creation, and some added details, so I will try to give a little understanding to this. Have you aver read a newspaper headline? Gen. 1 is the 'headline' and the main article is in Gen. 2. This is a detailed account of what happened on day 6, where God made a garden, placed the man in the garden, and then created one of each 'kind' of creation right before his eyes so the man could name them and rule them in equity. Then God created the woman to be with the man (by this time, Adam knew he needed a mate too!)\nIn the garden Adam and Eve had only ONE restriction - They were free to do ANYTHING they wanted to do with the exception of eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were clearly told the penalty of this would be death.\nIn spite of this knowledge, they both ate of the tree, and as a result, death entered the world, and the perfect creation of God was ruined. Instead of killing Adam and Eve though, God provided a 'loophole' in the law, and an animal (probably a lamb) was killed instead. In this way Adam and Eve saw the result of their sin brought death into the world, but God spared their lives for the time. By clothing them in the skins of the animal killed in their stead, God was giving them a constant reminder of the result of sin, and reminding them that He accepted them through the substitution of the animal killed in their place.\nThen God makes an extraordinary promise (Gen. 3:15) That the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent who deceived her.\n\nWe now skip ahead to a time when evil has grown on the earth to the point God can no longer stand it (Gen. 6), and men have stopped caring whether or not they are in right standing with God, forsaking the sacrifice, and offending God in all their thoughts and deeds (possibly because even though Adam lived to the age of 930 years, he eventually did die). \nBut there is one man (Adam's great, great, great, great, great, great, granson) who is still seeking God, and observing the sacrifice for atonement of sin. This man's name was Noah, and God judged the entire world with a flood, but spared Noah and his family (as well as each k
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I read the Bible from a literal point of veiw. By this I mean that the Bible contains a large number of Literary styles, and each portion needs to be read in accordance with the literary (literal) style in which it is written. I do believe that the Bible is the inspired communication from the living God to mankind.\n\nI agree with the previous poster who stated that the "Us" in Gen. 1:26 is a reference to the Triune nature of God. This is further supported by the references to the Father (as the directive member), the Spirit (which 'moved on the waters') and the Son (as the Spoken Word of the Father). \n\nFurther along, in chapter two (a detailed account of the creative activy of God on day six, not a separate creation account as some would claim), man is refered to as a single creation, both male and female, in the image of God. The theme there being that neither man nor woman (without each other) express the image of God, but that together (as the two are 'one flesh' in marriage) they demonstrate the nature of the Triune Godhead.
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I'm a bit rusty on langauge arts, but here goes nothing:\n\nMany of C.S. Lewis' writings allude to the Bible, and have gained popularity among church groups because of this.