WHEN WAS THE BIBLE WRITTEN?
The earliest stories of the Old Testament were most likely handed down in oral tradition at first (this is also true of the stories of Jesus in the New Testament). The exact dates when all the books of the Bible were written is not known, although the dates of certain books, particularly in the New Testament, can be closely approximated. Roughly speaking, the Bible was written during the period from 1400 B.C.E to 100 C.E. On a side note, it was not until the Middle Ages that bookmaking technology had advanced enough to allow all of the Bible’s books to be physically bound into a single volume. In its earlier forms, the Bible was made up of separate scrolls or smaller books. The chapter and verse numbers are not original but were added to the text at a later date to help in locating particular passages.
