The Bible is a collection of individual religious texts written by different people at different times (it is assumed that for 1, 500 years). Interestingly, all texts are sustained in a single style of narration that describes the history of life itself, like multi-colored beads pierced by a single thread, as a symbol of eternal Being - all-pervading, diverse and unchanging.
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The first biblical texts were carved in stone (the famous Ten Commandments). Later, copper plates and scrolls (from parchment and papyrus) began to be used.
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It is generally accepted that the first person to combine all these scattered narratives was the scribe Ezra inspired by the Divine Power. So, in 450 BC, the Old Testament arose. This first part of the modern Bible was constantly replenished with new narratives, up to 397 BC. Moreover, the first text is dated about 1521 BC, and the last was added in 397 BC By that time, the Old Testament already had 39 chapters, not counting the 14 additions (apocryphal additions). However, the latter did not enter the final canonized version of the Bible, since they were not mentioned in the surviving Hebrew version of the original source.
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By the end of the 70s of the II century, the first translation of the most complete version of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Ancient Greek, known as the Septuagint (the work of 72 translators), for the Alexandria Library in Egypt was completed. Now it is the property of the British Museum.
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Oral legends about Jesus began to be recorded by his disciples from around the 1950s to the 1990s. After the end of the earthly journey of the holy apostles, their followers began to piecemeal everything together. Until 200, the four Gospels and the main scriptures were recognized by the Church and combined into the second book of the Bible - the New Testament, which has 27 chapters. Since that time, the scrolls have been replaced with the first stitched notebooks called the "codex".
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The monks carefully rewrote these papyrus books, double-checked them by the number of lines, letters and keywords. However, inaccuracies were inevitable, given the cold, meager lighting and fatigue. Sometimes scribes made their own explanations instead of the original text. You can imagine the percentage of distortion, even if everyone made one mistake.
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As the teachings of Christ spread, the Bible began to be translated into all possible languages of the world. By the beginning of the 19th century, there were more than 70 translations. To translate the Bible into the Old Slavonic language in 863, two Christian enlighteners, Cyril and Methodius, had to invent an alphabet - a prototype of the current Cyrillic alphabet. The Bible was translated into modern Russian parts: in 1821 the New Testament was published, in 1875 - the Old Testament.
