What year did man start writing the Bible?

Answer 1

About 600 BC in Babylon, after the Jews had been conquered and about the time (20 or 30 years) that their period of servitude (slavery) was ending and they could "act" Jewish again.

There were portions (possibly large) written before then, but those copies were lost with the conquest of Israel.

//According to 1 Kings 6:1, a more accurate date would be about 1445 BC. The writing of Genesis was penned after the 40 year trek in the desert.//

Answer:

Even today, some speak of the "Book of Enoch"... the man of God who lived in the pre-flood world. Such "inspired writing" [which The Bible states that the Word of God is - II Tim.3:16] would have had to come across the flood with Noah on the ark.

Indeed, Noah had 120 years to prepare the ark. And besides however many pieces of memorabilia and souvenirs Noah and his family probably gathered together to stow on the ark for their own sentimental reasons... God, who commissioned the building of the ark, would have told Noah to include His inspired writings throughout this period; of whom Enoch seems to have been the only one to have done so. With Abel, Enoch and Noah being the only ones mentioned in the Bible as called during these generations.

And while said "Book of Enoch" doesn't seem to have been included in the Bible... besides the "inspiration of God"... Moses would have had to have some help in his writing of Genesis [which may well have been provided by the libraries of Egypt as the Israelites stocked up on the possessions of the Egyptians just before they left the land:

"...I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty. But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians." (Ex.3:21-22)

"...so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians." (Ex.12:36)

Moses was raised as "Pharaoh's son" with all its privileges... which included his education [partly provided from the extensive library the empire had acquired and preserved]... as well as his education in reading and writing. And it's quite probable that Moses would have secured [at the command of God] any and all writings pertinent to the future Bible and the commission God had in mind for Moses to do.

The "Book of Enoch" may have provided Moses with many of the details he included in Genesis, beyond whatever inspiration he may have received directly from God.

But, besides whatever assistance the "inspired writings of Enoch" may or may not have lent to Genesis... there is still the book of "Jude" in the Bible, which quotes Enoch [perhaps from his book] as testifying to the pre-flood world the "gospel" [good news] of Jesus Christ -- the coming Kingdom of God and the Judgment:

"...Enoch also... prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute Judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." (Jude 1:14-15)

Most men tend to forget those whom God inspired from the beginning, as revealed in the Bible: Abel, Enoch and Noah; three men of God who lived before the flood. While no writings are attributed to Abel or Noah [although their works and some of their words are recorded by others in the Bible] -- Enoch is credited for having, possibly, been the first to "start writing the Bible."

However... since an agreement as to an accurate accounting of time in general will never be reached to the satisfaction of everyone... it's unlikely that an exact year may be known as to when the inspired writing of the Bible began.

But if Enoch was the first man to begin "writing the Bible"... it would have been sometime between the creation of man on the sixth day, some "seven generations" from Adam's creation [as Jude tells us]... and the flood.