Who made the first book in the world?

Answer 1

Assuming that you are not an atheist, i would have to say that the first author was God! True, but the question asks who wrote the first book, not who created the world. The Bible, Torah, and Qu'ran are both collections of writings by many different people trying to put down things that they felt God was telling them - the oldest manuscripts date from anywhere from 1446 BC to 537 BC (these are both guesses as to the dates that the Israelites were captives in Egypt, which is around the time that Moses wrote the Ten Commandments."

The Chinese were the first people to begin printing literature - they used blocks of wood and rice paper.

Nobody knows who wrote the very first book, but here are some examples of very old books that we know about:

• Japanese "Million Pagoda Charms" - although not actually books as you think about them, these good luck charms are actually the oldest known examples of printing! They have publication dates between 718 and 764 AD!
• The "Diamond Sutra" scroll ("Jin gang ban ruo bo luo mi jing") - this is the first book scientists have discovered which actually had a publication date. It was published on the year 868. However, books had been printed in China for at least 150 years before this!
• The "Dharani Sutra" scroll )"Mugujonggwang taedaranigyong") - this might be the earliest printed document in the world. It is a series of Chinese woodblock printings, and was put into print by a monk named Mit'san in the year 704!

Answer 2

Well if you take out cave drawings, scrolls and the like, the oldest book has yet to be found.

BUT, the oldest one we have found varies between scientists and specialist....Here is the top 2 that get debated:

1. Nag Hammadi Library - (actual cover and pages) 1,693 years old.

2. Etruscan Gold Book (Lost Language so no title) - 6 gold tablets - 2,6733yrs old.

Optional depending on your beliefs :

The Bible - Written before and after the ten commandments when rightly diving the Bible.

Answer 3

The first book ever written was not really a book. It was really a scroll of parchment, titled "Early Days" by Mary Houston.

I do hate to disagree, however, history tends to nullify this answer. Let's begin at the beginning (no not Genesis, the first book of the Christian Bible, regardless of some popular belief).

The invention of writing marks the boundary between pre-history and history. The first written language that we know of was archaic cuneiform. It is believed to have appeared around 3400 BC during the early period of ancient Sumerian civilization in the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq. Cuneiform was originally a pictographic language gradually becoming syllabic and composed of wedge shaped characters ( the word, "cuneiform," comes from the Latin term cuneusmeaning wedge.) The earliest writings were on clay tablets and were probably administrative lists.

The first written story that has come down to us isThe Epic of Gilgamesh. It is a mythologized account of an historical figure, Gilgamesh, a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, believed to have ruled sometime between 2700-2500 BC.

The Gilgamesh Epic continues to be available today in Hardback and e-book, however, there is only ONE "clay tablet" in existence today and it is currently stored in the British Museum.

We don't know the first book ever written in the America's, but the oldest book in the Western Hemisphere still in existence is a Maya fig bark manuscript, believed to have been written in the 13th century A.D. It is called the Dresden Codex, named for the city in which it resides.

The first book ever published in North America was "The Whole Book of Psalmes" it was printed in Cambridge, Mass in 1640. Eleven copies of the first edition are known to be in existence.

I still have yet to find any information on the "scroll", "early days" by Mary Houston? However, if a "scroll" can be considered a "book" then a story written on clay tablets is no less of a book either, therefore, making "The Epic of Gilgamesh" the oldest known book to date.

Answer 4

god ,the bible daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Well, perhaps, but hey sorry to burst your bubble, but Christians wrote the Bible, not God. There are people who wrote some first books on the ground with a stick, etc., but the earliest ever recorded printed book was by Wang Chieh, 848 A.D.. He carved each page by hand into a block of wood. Then he put ink on the wood and pressed it on to paper. The idea of printing with wood spread, someone invented the movable type and here you are.

Answer 5

Monks wrote the Bible, the first book ever written.

Mocks transcribed the Bible. The Saints and Prophets wrote the Bible. Moses is the earliest author of the Bible that we know of. However, the Bible was the First book known to be in existance.

Answer 6

And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

Exodus 31:18

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Answer 7

It is unknown what the first written book was, but the first book to be published was the Gutenberg Bible.

Answer 8

Chaucer who is also known as the father of English literature.

Answer 9

Herodotus wrote what was considered the first history book on and the book was based on the Persain Wars.

Answer 10

Mr T was the first one.