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I was trying to figure out who actually wrote the books of the bible and everyone thinks its these imaginary characters like moses or solomon. Will we ever know who really wrote these books?

Thirst2learn 7 Dec 2
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In our time today there is very little of anything left to actually hint at original authorship. We have pieces and fragments and everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. You cannot tell the religious this however. They think the gospels were written by those who's names are on them. They ask why would Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John lie. OK, why would a fraudulent painter lie? Later in the time of Constantine the bible as we know it was put together into a big book out of all the 66 plus smaller books. They picked and chose over what books were of real value and which were not. Many of the books not included were called false, or Gnostic and all of this happened some 300 years after the time of Jesus. My writing here cannot do it justice but once this is understood you will have a different view of Christian religion and any religious book.

Its interesting to note, that the bible passages we know the most about the origins of, are the forgeries, such as the many parts added, including Maths account of the resurection, the eleventh commandment, and the last verses of Song Of Solomon, which were added by the King James editors. (King James being the fundamentalists favourite of course, as well as the most inaccurate.)

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Recent video I found, a little long but I think it might be well worth knowing so you would better understand.

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Probably not. Just a bunch of nameless goat herders...

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King David has been given verfication. Solomon was purported to be his son.

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It is perhaps best , not to regards the Bible, OT or NT as a written document anyway. It is most probable, that it is more of a document that was edited into existence. Like a scrap book where editors, also nameless, took bits from here and there and pasted them together. We know that that certainly happened in the case of the later, New Testament, in its later days, and also with the Koran, much though Islamic zealots may claim otherwise, so it is reasonable to think that that is also true of the OT.

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No, I don't think so, just about every original copy and document produced at the same time, has been found researched and studied to within an inch of its life, over the last few centuries. And no one got anywhere, except to say, that we are less sure now than we were two centuries ago. Short of something really massive, like a whole bunch of much earlier dead sea scrolls turning up, which is unlikely, it is not going to happen.

And in any case you are dealing with an age before, copy rights, before medical records, and even before birth and death certificates, there simply was not the documentation made, back then about people lives, or referencing who wrote what. In part because, when all documents were hand made on expensive materials, then they were only used sparingly, and then the chances of them surviving and not even being recycled, are vanishingly remote.

PS. Even the mainstream churches, such as the Roman Catholic, and the Church of England, admit that Moses almost certainly did not write the books that go by his name, ( since they refer to events after his death, such as his funeral, bit of a give away.) And that the New Testament, was certainly not written by Mark, Luke , Math, John.

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