Biblical History

[DT Strain]

Does anyone know if there is some online summary of the history of where/when the books of the bible came from, as best as scholars can currently tell? I'm looking for a VERY generalized and simplified overview, perhaps just a few pages in length at most.

Thanks!

 

[wil]

Does anyone know if there is some online summary of the history of where/when the books of the bible came from, as best as scholars can currently tell? I'm looking for a VERY generalized and simplified overview, perhaps just a few pages in length at most.

Thanks!

I'm afraid the short answer is no. The question is which scholars? This runs the spectrum from 'finger of G-d infallible' to book of myths...there are definitive and short one or two page responses to your questioin by each and every group that has an opiinion. It truly won't take long for you to get the feel and flavor of what is out there...

http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-authors.html
http://www.bibleprobe.org/bibauth.html
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbible1.html
http://www.answering-christianity.com/authors_gospels.htm

Between the priests, the kings, the scribes, the deuteronimists, the apostles...not only a lot of single authors...a lot of groups of authors had their fingers in this...and then add to the mix the translators, interpreters and editors for the past 2 millenia....

 

[DT Strain]

Sorry, I should have specified I meant from a secular, scholarly point of view only. Thanks.