Is Our Bible the Real Thing?
Are the documents we possess the same as the original documents? How do we know?
Were the original documents truly written at or around the time they cover rather than written many centuries after the facts?
The Bible consists of the original Hebrew Scriptures, which are called The Old Testament in the Bible, plus the New Testament.
Old Testament
The Hebrew Scriptures are called the Tanakh, or the Mikra, meaning “what is read”. It was originally written in Hebrew, with sections of Daniel & Ezra written in Aramaic. Tanakh consists of three sections:
Torah – the first 5 books of the Bible, which we call Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)
Prophets (Nevi’im) – 2 sub-sections:
Former Prophets: Joshua Judg...
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