Add to this the reverence and painstaking methods that Jewish scribes used to copy, check, and double check their handwritten copies of the Hebrew Bible , including using a mathematical numbering system to see that things “added up,” and you see why the entire Bible is the most well-preserved piece of literature from antiquity. Anyone can dispute its message, not so its historicity. The Bible as a whole is a miraculous piece of literature. Its 66 books were written over a period of approximately 1,600 years, by 40 authors, on three different continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. It was written in three different languages: Hebrew, Chaldean and Greek. It contains many literary styles: poetry, historical narrative, parables, proverbs, and allegory. It was written under all types of conditions: on the battlefield, in times of peace, in prosperity, in poverty, in captivity, at sea, in palaces, in the desert and in prison.
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