This is a contentious area, with different scholars holding strong and conflicting views. The table below presents the traditional view which provides the earliest dates based on the events recorded in each book and their traditional authorship.
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We’ll deal with both of these questions in turn: How did the NT canon become established? As each new part of the New Testament (NT) scriptures was written it would have become accepted by the Christian community because it was written by people they knew were authoritative.1 In this way the traditional canon of NT [...]
The Pentateuch is a collective name for the first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). Pentateuch is from Greek, and it means “five-volumed [book]“. Another name for these books is the Torah (Torah is Hebrew meaning ‘instruction’ or ‘teaching’).
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible, so the middle chapter is the 595th chapter which is Psalm 117 (not Psalm 118 as is often claimed). It is harder to identify the middle verse because the number of verses varies depending on the Bible version used. In any case, identifying the middle of the Bible [...]
Yes, the Book of Mormon contradicts the Bible. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or “Mormons”) claim that, along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon1 is a revelation from God. However, the Book of Mormon fails the tests that the Bible gives to identify genuine revelations from God; e.g.: Deut. 13:1-3 If [...]
Yes, the Quran contradicts the Bible in a number of ways. All of the following examples are taken from the second chapter (sura) of the Quran, but they are representative of the whole of the book. Sometimes the Quran contradicts the historical record of the Bible: The Quran The Bible 2:31 … He [God] taught [...]
The first five books of the Old Testament are attributed to Moses, who would have gathered together records by Adam, Noah, Shem and Abraham which had been passed on by word of mouth, or possibly in some more permanent form. He added the account of the history of Israel and the laws that God commanded [...]
The Bible contains a timeless message of hope and is by no means a book of the past. God, the author of the Bible, is timeless (Psalm 90:2) and wishes to share eternity with the people who love Him (Romans 6:23). Thousands of years ago God instructed the nation of Israel to “teach their children” [...]
In most Bibles, the Book of Haggai has two chapters. See the Scripture Index for the number of chapters in each book.
There were about 40 authors of the books of the Bible, all inspired by God. We know who most of them were, although there are some anonymous writers. Moses is thought to have compiled the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. As Deuteronomy describes the death of Moses, [...]
