Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!mis From: mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Previously posted questions re history of Jewish Bible Message-ID: <585@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 16:47:09 EST Article-I.D.: spuxll.585 Posted: Wed Dec 5 16:47:09 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 00:37:46 EST References: <1792@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 18 I also heard that Samuel was the first book to be written down, but I don't know where they came up with that. It is possible that when all the manuscripts of different sections where compiled, certain Books of the Bible where written first from these sections first. It is seems that the Books of the Bible where compiled from manuscripts of different sections. This may be why in Isaiah we find chapters that are repeats from Kings. I the Chumash (5 Books of Moses, I dont know how to spell that word starting with "P") there are references to the words being written down. For example Duetoronomy 30:10, "... to observe His commandments and laws that are *written* in this Torah ... . We find references to the different parts being written down. [And Moses wrote thier journeys according to the word of G-d] Numbers 33:2. In Kings II 22:8 there is the story that while the Temple was being repaired, the Cohain Gadol (high priest) reports to king Yoshiyahu's scribe that he found a "Sefer HaTorah" (Book of the Torah). I believe that the earliest manuscripts available today are the Dead Sea Scrolls dating around 100 BCE.