The Bible from a historical point of view, includes numerous fields of study, ranging from archeology and astronomy to linguistics , mathematical and scientific concepts and methods of comparative literature, The Bible may provide human an insight about ancient and modern culture, mythology, anthropology and morality. Examining the historical context, importance ascribed to events, and the contrast between the descriptions of these events and historical evidence of their occurrence (or lack thereof) is useful in providing information on topics beyond the simple factual accuracy of the Bible.
Bible is consider as compilation of books that connects human to God, a record of Creators commandment and rules, basis of human moral standard and government constitutional laws and programs and a basis of world historical flow and natural events that human encounter.
Major Division of Bible.
1. Old Testament - contain 39 books written by different author, at different era, period and epoch but guided by God. The 39 books of old testament are:
Genesis,Exodus,Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,First book of Samuel, Second book of Samuel, First book of Kings, Second book of Kings, First book of Chronicles,Second Book of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Song of Solomon, Canticles),Isaiah
Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
2. New Testament - contain 27 books including Jesus Christ life and contribution. Listed below are new testaments books compilation.
Gospel according to St. Matthew, Gospel according to St. Mark, Gospel according to St. Luke, Gospel according to St. John, Acts of the Apostles, Epistle to the Romans, First Epistle to the Corinthians, Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Epistle to the Galatians, Epistle to the Ephesians, Epistle to the Philippians, Epistle to the Colossians,First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, First Epistle to Timothy,, Second Epistle to Timothy, Epistle to Titus, Epistle to Philemon, Epistle to the Hebrews, Epistle of James, First Epistle of Peter, Second Epistle of Peter, First Epistle of John, Second Epistle of John, Third Epistle of John, Epistle of Jude, Revelation (Apocalypse).
History of the Bible (66 books compilation)
The history of the Bible starts with a phenomenal account of history! It's not one book like I always thought -- It's an ancient collection of writings, comprised of 66 separate books, written over approximately 1,600 years, by at least 40 distinct authors. The Old Testament contains 39 books written from approximately 1500 to 400 BC, and the New Testament contains 27 books written from approximately 40 to 90 AD. The Jewish Bible (Tanakh) is the same as the Christian Old Testament, except for its book arrangement. The original Old Testament was written mainly in Hebrew, with some Aramaic, while the original New Testament was written in common Greek.
The history of the "Bible" begins with the Jewish Scriptures. The historical record of the Jews was written down on leather scrolls and tablets over centuries, and the authors included kings, shepherds, prophets and other leaders. The first five books are called the Law, which were written and/or edited primarily by Moses in the early 1400's BC. Thereafter, other scriptural texts were written and collected by the Jewish people during the next 1,000 years. About 450 BC, the Law and the other Jewish Scriptures were arranged by councils of rabbis (Jewish teachers), who then recognized the complete set as the inspired and sacred authority of God (Elohim). At some time during this period, the books of the Hebrew Bible were arranged by topic, including The Law (Torah), the Prophets (Nebiim), and the Writings (Ketubim). The first letters of these Hebrew words - T, N and K -- form the name of the Hebrew Bible - the Tanakh. 1
Beginning as early as 250 BC, the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek by Jewish scholars in Alexandria, Egypt. This translation became known as the "Septuagint", meaning 70, and referring to the tradition that 70 (probably 72) men comprised the translation team. It was during this process that the order of the books was changed to the order we have in today's Bible: Historical (Genesis - Esther), poetic (Job - Song of Songs), and prophetic (Isaiah - Malachi). 2
Although the Jewish Scriptures were copied by hand, they were extremely accurate copy to copy. The Jews had a phenomenal system of scribes, who developed intricate and ritualistic methods for counting letters, words and paragraphs to insure that no copying errors were made. These scribes dedicated their entire lives to preserving the accuracy of the holy books. A single copy error would require the immediate destruction of the entire scroll. In fact, Jewish scribal tradition was maintained until the invention of the printing press in the mid-1400's AD. As far as manuscript accuracy, the recent discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has confirmed the remarkable reliability of this scribal system over thousands of years 3 (I'll get back to the Dead Sea Scrolls later).
After approximately 400 years of scriptural silence, Jesus arrived on the scene in about 4 BC. Throughout his teaching, Jesus often quotes the Old Testament, declaring that he did not come to destroy the Jewish Scriptures, but to fulfill them. In the Book of Luke, Jesus proclaims to his disciples, "all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." 4
Starting in about 40 AD, and continuing to about 90 AD, the eye-witnesses to the life of Jesus, including Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James, Peter and Jude, wrote the Gospels, letters and books that became the Bible's New Testament. These authors quote from 31 books of the Old Testament, and widely circulate their material so that by about 150 AD, early Christians were referring to the entire set of writings as the "New Covenant." During the 200s AD, the original writings were translated from Greek into Latin, Coptic (Egypt) and Syriac (Syria), and widely disseminated as "inspired scripture" throughout the Roman Empire (and beyond). 5 In 397 AD, in an effort to protect the scriptures from various heresies and offshoot religious movements, the current 27 books of the New Testament were formally and finally confirmed and "canonized" in the Synod of Carthage. 6
Why do we need to use bible as true basis of World History
1. The power of prophecy - Biblical prophecy is the prediction of future events based on the action, function or faculty of the prophet.
"Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains."A prophecy from Bible that are actually happening today.
2. Biblical Geography - Places of todays geographical map were also the places indicated in the old testament proving that todays civilization were just products of past civilization written in the holy scripture.Example of places are Ethiopia, Egypt, Peninsula, Jordan, Juda, Jericho, Roma, Bethlehem, Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, red sea, mesopotamian river and other similar places written both in bible and modern geographical map.
3. World Events - World war I and World war II were all predicted by the bible that marks extraordinary events in world history like atomic bomb discovery and the creation of warcraft that create earth devastation and agony.
4. Natural Calamities - Earthquake, typhoons, drought, flood, famine, volcanic erruption and other natural calamities that destroyed life and properties took place anywhere globally, shows evidence of bibles cridibility in terms of prophecies and prediction.
5. Growth of Scientific Knowledge - Discoveries and findings in science supported the different statement in the bible about scientific concepts and principle mentioned earlier by the bible.
Ex. 1. Bible mentioned earlier about the earth shaped before science explained it well.
2. Technological inventions and other related scientific improvement.
6. Impact of Ancient Technology to Modern world - Egypt, Persia, Babylon, Israel, Jericho were considered as the origin of civilization that paved way to our todays modern technolgy.
7. Archeological Evidences - Ancient civilization can be describe trough artifacts and fossils found by archeologist which are exactly inlined/similar with all information the bible provide.
8. The younger generation - as stated that when the end is near,Man will love more themselves, willing to commit crime and youth will show disrespect to their parents. This kind of scenario is now common among teenager and provided shocking experience to the old generation on how to deal with the teenagers belongs to their family.
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