{"id":338,"date":"2002-02-07T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2002-02-07T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/07\/who-wrote-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:38:00","slug":"who-wrote-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/07\/who-wrote-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wrote the bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16557,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.straightdope.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310205230\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.straightdope.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 11:15:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 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11:16:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16565,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.straightdope.com\\\/mailbag\\\/mbob.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.straightdope.com\\\/mailbag\\\/mbob.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some fascinating stuff courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/\" title=\"The Straight Dope\">The Straight Dope<\/a> &#8212; a five-part series covering the primary theories on who wrote and edited the Bible. I&#8217;ve only read the first part, but plan on going through the rest fairly soon, and may want to pick up a book they recommend in the article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060630353\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Richard E. Friedman's 'Who Wrote the Bible?'\">Who Wrote the Bible?<\/a> by Richard E. Friedman. This stuff fascinates me&#8230;here&#8217;s the links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mbible1.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: Who Wrote the Bible? Part 1\">Part 1<\/a>: Who wrote\/compiled\/edited (and when) the first five books of the Bible, called the Torah or Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mbible2.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: Who Wrote the Bible? Part 2\">Part 2<\/a>: Who wrote\/compiled\/edited (and when) the various histories in the Old Testament (such as Judges, Kings, etc)?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mbible3.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: Who Wrote the Bible? Part 3\">Part 3<\/a>: Who wrote\/compiled\/edited (and when) the various prophetic books (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and the wisdom literature (Psalms, Proverbs, etc.) in the Old Testament?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mbible4.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: Who Wrote the Bible? Part 4\">Part 4<\/a>: Who wrote\/compiled\/edited (and when) the various New Testament books?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mbible5.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: Who Wrote the Bible? Part 5\">Part 5<\/a>: Who decided which books should be included and which excluded from the Bible(s)? Why are there differences in the Bibles for Catholics, Protestants, and Jews?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks to be some really neat reading.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, they&#8217;ve also got articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a5_244.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: Are there any jokes in the Bible?\">jokes in the Bible<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mbob.html\" title=\"The Straight Dope: What's the deal with the Church of the Subgenius?\">Church of the Subgenius<\/a>. Maybe not as serious, but could be equally interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some fascinating stuff courtesy of The Straight Dope &#8212; a five-part series covering the primary theories on who wrote and edited the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}