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From: mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg)
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Subject: Re: Previously posted questions re history of Jewish Bible
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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.