When was the bible 1st written?
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The first book of the Bible, Genesis was written in 1513 B.C.E. by Moses in the Wilderness.
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It was the first Christian Emperor Victor Constantinus Maximus Augustus of Rome who commissioned fifty copies of Christian Bible in the year AD 331 to Eusebius Pamphilus of Caesarea.(Ref: The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, by Eusebius Pamphilus of Caesarea)
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It depends on what you mean by written. As Perryman wrote, the first book, Genesis, was written in 1513 BC. The other books followed it. The first version of what we call the Bible was not compiled until AD 331. However, there has never been complete agreement as to just which books should be included in the Bible. Thus the Catholic Bible contains the Apocrypha while the versions used by most Protestants don't.
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Answer 1 is close, but not quite what Brahmanya asked. He asked when the Bible was first *written*. Answer 1 tells us that the Bible was first *compiled* in AD 331. However, the various parts of the Bible were *written* long before that. Answers 2 and 3 mention Moses writing the first part, the book of Genesis, around the 16th or 15th century century BC. He wrote four other books of the Bible as well. Others books followed, from many authors, over the next 1600 years. The last couple of books of the Bible were written about 90 AD or 100 AD. But people had to wait a couple more centuries before all the Bible books -- 66 in most, though come Bibles include a few more -- were gathered into a single volume. That event is in Answer 1.
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We may never really know this answer since written tradition predates the actual transcription of the bible itself. Anything else is really conjecture and hearsay.
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For the Old Testament, we have copies of all books from 200BC (Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls plus Masada) and quotations from them as early as 1000BC (on amulets in ossuaries). For the New Testament, linguistic evidences tells us that the books were written down from the 50sAD to about AD 95. Clement of Rome, an early Christian leader and a student of Peter and John, writing about AD 95, quotes from many of the New Testament books. Other CHristian leaders writing a little later were Polycarp of Smyrna (a pupil of John), Ignatius of Antioch and Ireneus of Lyon (France). Putting together all these men, we can know that the NT was used in its entirety well before 200AD, probably on papyri. The use of codexes (books) was just coming into vogue at the time of Emperor Constantine (4th century), which is why he commissioned them. Posting Comment...
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The Old Testament, as it is known today, was the holy book of the Hebrews long before the carpenter's son came along and inspired the cult that created the New Testament.
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Everybody is wrong. The question manifest so clear when the Bible was wrote for first time? He is not talking of manuscripts. He is talking of the Bible as book. The first Bible was wrote near 800 hundred years ago and the real name is: "VULGATE LATIN".
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