Finding Biblical Authors

 People are people and writers are writers. Whether they lived in 500 BCE or today. There is nothing more magical or mysterious about the ancient writing process than there is in the modern one. Once we treat the stories as stories written by humans just like us, we can glean a lot of information about the writers and the world they inhabited when they wrote their biblical stories.

 Each writer, biblical or otherwise, writes in their own way. They can only do so from their own perspective, inner world and the reality around them, using preferred words and expressions. Once we identify the writer's fingerprint, we can find real actual biblical writers that we know existed, and see if there is one with an identical style, perspective and word choice.

It's been 150 years ago since we were first able to read the different layers of several biblical books, which were sewn together in editing to form the Bible we have today. Scholars named this finding the Documentary Hypothesis, and it allows us to read each of those layers separately, as it was written and meant to be read. This is an extremely valuable tool to seperate the layers

 Every form of art changes and evolves over time, according to what is going on in society at that time. When people cross a dramatic historical crossroads, the stories they tell change dramatically. So here are the dramatic historical events that spurred the Hebrews to write.

Here are the pivotal moments when the Bible was written and/or edited.