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A:Long before the Common Era, Judaism accepted the Torah (Pentateuch - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) as sacred, but was uncertain as to what other books were important. The Council of Jamnia is believed to have decided on the Jewish canon in 96 CE. Prior to this, there were simply books, or scrolls, which were regarded as more or less sacred by Jewish scholars.

The first book of the Hebrew Bible to be written down much as we see it today is believed to be the Book of Deuteronomy, written in Jerusalem during the seventh-century-BCE reign of King Josiah. As Israel had already been destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 BCE, the Israelites never had the benefit of reading Deuteronomy or, of course, any of the other books in the modern Hebrew Bible. They did have early religious texts, including an important scroll that eventually formed part of the Book of Genesis.

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Some small parts of the Old Testament were written in Israel, which ceased to exist following its conquest by the Assyrians in 722 BCE. By far the greater part was written in Judah and in Babylonia during the Babylonian Exile.

The entire New Testament was written in the Greek language and the available evidence is that it was written in various parts of the Near East and Greece, but not in Judea or Galilee.

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