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The answer to this depends on whether you believe the religious claims to its origin or the historical claims. The religious claims say that God spoke to a Prophet named Moses who proceeded to write down the first five books of The Bible or Torah around 1300-1200 B.C.E. The historical claim is that The Bible is a composite of four different works composed between 1000-500 B.C.E. with each of the works have a different author or group authorship. These four groups include a Davidic Scribe named the Yahwist (J), a later Judean Scribe named the Elohist (E), a Priest during the Babylonian Exile (P), and a Legal Expert during the Babylonian Exile responsible for much of Deuteronomy (D).

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Meghan Hammes

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