(April 8, 2010 at 6:57 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I guess you didn't read the actual article...As the article itself states, biblical scholarships differ on this. It's difficult to pinpoint when exactly the bible was started, as 5,000 years ago there was no written language. The stories of the bible had been passed down for many generations, even thousands of years, before they were ultimately scribed. So the writing of the bible began with the stories that were passed down verbally.
Quote:Although biblical scholarship differs, it is widely accepted that the Hebrew Bible was being assembled around the same time as this treaty, the seventh century BC.
I think historians / archaeologists might know a bit more about history than you do...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_Bible_written