Bible Question: This my third request.. Please send me the order in time the old and new testament was written. Thank you, Alice dunlevy |
Bible Answer: Hi Alice. What seems like an easy question is not. There are Bible scholars who have differing opinions on dating books and even the authors. Much of the diversity come in how one understands scripture. There is one of many Theories called the J E P D. This theory is one which some scholars believe more than one author wrote the book of Genesis. Still yet, there is the idea that three authors who wrote Isaiah. Daniel is a book that has some problems dating it. Some scholars say it was an date of early writing, and others say a much later date. So this makes it hard to have a universal set dating that most would agrre on. In my humble non argumentive position, I believe the Bible is God's onehundred percent inspired without error as originally written. I believe the Bible is infallible. I consider my view of scripture is not that of neo-orthodox. I believe Moses wrote Genesis. I believe Isaiah wrote the whole book. I am conservative, and take a high view litteralism. This is my idea; how a person believes the begining, is how you will understand the end of the Bible, and that determines how you believe the rest of the books in the Bible. I hope I have helped to explain how a complex a simple question can be. There are Bibles in Christian Book stores that have the bible assemblied in how that person thinks the order of the books were written. Again it is how they believe which reflects a conservative or liberal order that would be listed as author thinks. Perhaps the most important thing is for you to know you can trust every word in Holy Scripture. God Bless, farout |