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The Bible was written over several centuries by many different authors, there are disputes over who wrote some of the books and when:

These are the ones most generally agreed on:

Moses (1400 BC) Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Job

Joshua (1350 BC) Joshua

Samuel (1000BC) Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel

Unknown (900BC) Ruth

Jeremiah (600BC) 1 & 2 Kings, Jeremiah, Lamentations

Ezra (450 BC) 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah

Mordecai (400 BC) Esther

David & Others (1000 to 400 BC) Psalms

Solomon (900 BC) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

Isaiah (700 BC) Isaiah

Ezekiel (550 BC) Ezekiel

Unknown (550 BC) Daniel

Hosea (750 BC) Hosea

Joel (850 BC) Joel

Amos (750 BC) Amos

Obadiah (600 BC) Obadiah

Unknown (700 BC) Jonah

Micah (700 BC) Micah

Nahum (650 BC) Nahum

Habakkuk (600 BC) Habakkuk

Zephaniah (650 BC) Zephaniah

Haggai (520 BC) Haggai

Zechariah (500 BC) Zechariah

Malachi (430 BC) Malachi

Matthew (55 AD) Gospel of Matthew

John Mark (50 AD) Gospel of Mark

Luke (60 AD) Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles

John (90 AD) Gospel of John

Paul (50 to 70 AD) Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

Unknown (65 AD) Hebrews

James (45 AD) James

Peter (60 AD) 1 & 2 Peter

John (90 AD) 1, 2 & 3 John

Jude (60 AD) Jude

John (90 AD) Revelation

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There is no one author of the Bible except God.*

The Bible is composed of several books such as Genesis, Exodus, Romans, Mathew, Mark, and so on, written by different people.

There are also two halves of the Bible. The first half is commonly known as the Old Testament. The Hebrew Bible is the Tanakh and contains the Torah which in Hebrew means "the way".

The second half is known as the New Testament which contains the Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke and John.

Most English language Bibles are versions of the translation known as the King James version.

*References :

2 Timothy 3:16- All scripture is inspired of GOD and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight in the name of righteousness, that the man of God may be fully equipped, completely competent for every good work.

Therefore, God (Jehovah- Psalms 83:18) inspired man to write the bible.

Historical Perspective

The Bible is a collection of several different books each written by a different person (or group of people). These people would have originally been early scientists and historians searching for answers like the ones people are searching for today, such as how did time begin, how did the Earth begin and when did life first appear. Of course, the stories have been affected by being passed down through the generations and sometimes lost in translation. Many things may have been rewritten by different people, adding their own bit to the story as it went on, changing it, sometimes perfecting it, sometimes not. But it was mainly like modern science and history, in a sense, it was science andhistory, and generations of scholars improved on the story of the Bible as time went on.

So the answer to the question is that the Bible was written by a collection of scientists and historians over many generations of history.

-- alternative view --

Some would say that there is no 'science' in the Bible, but that it is a tribal history of the Jewish people, written by historians and what we would nowadays call 'politicians' - people who wanted to direct the lives of their fellows.

Onto this the fledgling Christian church appended its scriptures.

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There was no one primary human author of the Bible. Christians believe that the Bible is inspired by God, so in a sense God is the author of the Bible, However, exactly how that was done (dictation, infusion of ideas, etc.) is a hotly debated topic.

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God is the only 'author' of the entire Bible which He had others via inspiration place in writing. Moses is credited with recording the first 5 Books - the Torah:

Deuteronomy 31:24-25

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

24 Moshe kept writing the words of this Torah in a book until he was done. When he had finished, (LY: vii) 25 Moshe gave these orders to the L'vi'im who carried the ark with the covenant of Adonai:

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Moses, he wrote the first five books of the Bible, sometimes called the books of Moses. The authorship of the first five books of the Bible is generally attributed to Moses.

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I belive it would be God who wroteit....................

it is not God who wrote it but he is just the author of the best selling book

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God. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and 2 Peter 1:20-21 show that it was God and man that wrote the Bible simultaneously. God told them what to write and they wrote it.

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God is the only author of the Bible - it is His Word. It has multiple people who were inspired to write down His words. The first to do so is commonly attributed to Moses.

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Moses

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