Who wrote most of old testament?

Answer 1

Most of the psalms are traditionally attributed to King David. In fact, at one early stage, they were all attributed to him. However, scholars say they are a genre that did not exist at the time of David.

In the form we now see, most of the psalms are believed to have been written anonymously over a period of more than two hundred years during and after the Babylonian Exile, although some contain pre-Exilic material.

Answer 2

King David wrote the majority of Psalms.

AnswerMost of the psalms are traditionally attributed to King David. However, scholars say they are a genre that did not exist at the time of David. In the form we now see, most of the psalms are believed to have been written anonymously over a period of more than two hundred years during and after the Babylonian Exile, although some contain pre-Exilic material.
King David wrote many of the Psalms found in The Bible.

Answer 3

There is no one individual author. The Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 poems written by multiple authors. The English title comes from the Greek word psalmos, which translates Hebrew mizmor, "song," found in many of the Psalm titles and simply translated as "psalm" (e.g., Psalm 3). The majority of the psalms (about 73) were written by David (same David that fought Goliath). Other authors include the Sons of Korah (11 psalms), Asaph (12 psalms), Solomon (possibly two psalms), and Moses (one). Other psalms do not identify the author at all.

Answer 4

AnswerMost of the psalms are traditionally attributed to Kings David and Solomon. However, scholars say that the psalms are a genre that was unknown at the time of David and Solomon. They say that they were really written over a period of at least two hundred years, during and after the Babylonian Exile. They were written anonymously and we do not know who any of the authors were.

Answer 5

King David.

• Answer 2

Tradition states that King David gave us the Book of Psalms. Seventy-three of the 150 bear his name, and the unattributed ones are also from him (Talmud, Berakhot 9b).
Concerning those Psalms that have the names of other authors, tradition teaches that we may thank David for them too. This is because it was he who collated and canonized them into his Book (Talmud, Bava Batra 14b). If not for King David, those Psalms would have gone lost.

Answer 6

According to traditional scholarship, Moses is uniformly regarded as having written at least Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy -except of course the epitaph about his death. Genesis is likely to have been written by a number of earlier authors, with the tablets passed down to Moses who is believed to have edited it into its final form. This represents the largest slab of work by any individual author in the Old Testament.

Liberal scholars of the 19th century posit a number of unknown authors for Moses' works largely based on certain presuppositions which have since been disproved by Archaeology - such as that writing did not exist in Moses time, so he couldn't have written the Pentateuch (the first five Bible books).

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However, even though Moses wrote (or edited) a large portion of the Old Testament it is only around 25%, since there were so many other authors. As a

general guide the works of Moses including Genesis (in one of my personal Bibles) represent around 350 out of 1370 in total.

Answer 7

King David

Answer 2

Tradition states that King David gave us the Book of Psalms. Seventy-three of the 150 bear his name, and the unattributed ones are also from him (Talmud, Berakhot 9b).

Concerning those Psalms that have the names of other authors, tradition teaches that we may thank David for them too. This is because it was he who collated and canonized them into his Book (Talmud, Bava Batra 14b). Some of their authors were contemporaries of David (such as Heiman, Eitan, Asaph, Jeduthun), while others lived before his time (Adam, Moses, Malkitzedek). If not for King David, those Psalms would have gone lost.

For some decades, academic scholars have claimed that many psalms were written several centuries after King David. They stated this for theoretical reasons. Recent analysis, however, makes it clear that the language, style, genre and phraseology of the Psalms is much more ancient than had been claimed. (Buttenwieser, Moses: The Psalms, Chronologically Treated with a New Translation. Also: Dahood, Mitchell, Psalms; The Anchor Bible.)

And in general:

No parchment, scroll, or inscription has ever been found that would support the Bible-critics' JEPD (different sources) hypothesis, which remains a set of mere postulates. And those ancient writers who mention, describe, summarize or translate the Torah (Josephus, Samaritans, Targum, Septuagint etc.), describe it in its complete form.

Archaeological finds, such as the Ugarit documents and those of Nuzu, Mari, Susa, Ebla, and Tel el-Amarna, have repeatedly caused the critics to retract their claims. The entire social milieu portrayed in the Torah, once criticized as anachronistic, has been shown to be accurate, including customs of marriage, adoption, contracts, inheritance, purchases, utensils, modes of travel, people's names and titles, etc. Professor Gleason Archer states: "In case after case where inaccuracy was alleged as proof of late and spurious authorship of the biblical documents, the Hebrew record has been vindicated by the results of excavations, and the condemnatory judgment of the Documentary theorists have been proved to be without foundation."

Answer 8

It was long believed that the most of the Psalms were written by King David, with the remainder coming from Solomon and their contemporaries in the royal court.

Modern scholars now realise that the Book of Psalms was compiled after the Babylonian Exile, including many psalms from the time of the Exile and even post-Exile, as well as some from the monarchic and even pre-monarchic periods.

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Answer 9

Tradition states that King David gave us the Book of Psalms. Seventy-three of the 150 bear his name, and the unattributed ones are also from him (Talmud, Berakhot 9b).
Concerning those Psalms that have the names of other authors, tradition teaches that we may thank David for them too. This is because it was he who collated and canonized them into his Book (Talmud, Bava Batra 14b). Some of their authors were contemporaries of David (such as Heiman, Eitan, Asaph, Jeduthun), while others lived before his time (Adam, Moses, Malkitzedek). If not for King David, those Psalms would have gone lost.

See also the Related Links.

Link: Reliability of the Hebrew record

Link: About King David

Link: The purpose of the Psalms

Answer 10

According to tradition, King David gave us the Book of Psalms. Seventy-three of the 150 bear his name, and the unattributed ones are also from him (Talmud, Berakhot 9b).

Concerning those Psalms that have the names of other authors, tradition teaches that we may thank David for them too (Talmud, Bava Bathra 14b). This is because it was he who recorded them in their permanent form and in a single book. If not for King David, those Psalms would have gone lost.

See also:

About King David

Psalm 23

The purpose of the Psalms