GUJARATI
CHRISTIAN E MAGAZINE ZARNU JULY 2020.
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HOLY BOOKS A REACH that goes far
beyond what virtually all works of literature can ever accomplish. Unlike, say,
The Great Gatsby, the Bible is a text upon which millions and millions of
people have based their entire lives.
That fact can be good or bad, and
it’s often been both over the many centuries throughout which Christians have
been reading the Bible and Jews have been reading the Torah. But given its
immense reach and cultural influence, it’s a bit surprising how little we
really know about the Bible’s origins. In other words, who wrote the Bible? Of
all the mysteries surrounding the Bible, that one may be the most fascinating.
We’re not completely ignorant, of
course. Some books of the Bible were written in the clear light of history, and
their authorship isn’t terribly controversial. Other books can be reliably
dated to a given period by either internal clues — sort of the way no books
written in the 1700s mention airplanes, for instance — and by their literary
style, which develops over time.
Religious doctrine, of course,
holds that God himself is the author of or at least the inspiration for the
entirety of the Bible, which was transcribed by a series of humble vessels.
About the best that can be said for that notion is that if God really did
“write” the Bible through a millennium-long sequence of various authors, he was
certainly doing it the hard way.
As for the actual historical
evidence regarding who wrote the Bible, that’s a longer story.