My 8 year old son has got me stumped. Please help......

[chillipepper]

Who was the the 1st writer in the bible?I know about Exodus but who wrote it?

[tatters]

Genesis was the first book of the bible, though I don't know who wrote it. Maybe it was the same guy that writes Seinfeld.

[shaneystar2]

Jewish tradition considers Genesis to have been written by Moses.

[shaneystar2]

Whoops pressed wrong button ....
From Wikipedia
Genesis as a completed book makes no claims about its authorship; it is an article of Orthodox Jewish faith that the book was dictated, in its entirety, by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. For a number of reasons, this view is no longer accepted by many biblical scholars and liberal Protestants. Instead, they accept a theory whose roots are based on cultural evolution and philosophical naturalism which teaches that the text of Genesis as we see it today was redacted together around 440 BC from earlier sources, namely the Sumerians.

[Tatty Rollox]

..... and here are the Sumerians that wrote it ...

[tatters]

HA HA HA HA I like it

[jno]

God, in theory; humans just wrote it down. The names of the humans are lost to us. Later books often bear the names of the prophets (also inspired by God) they deal with.

[steenbrassie]

Hi chillipepper,
Yes, think moses was the 1st writer in the bible but all of Scripture was inspired by God. Other writers in the Old Testament include Joshua and David.

Exodus 24:4: �Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said ��
See also v.7, Ex. 34:27�28, Nu. 33:1�2, Dt. 31:9

[jake-the-peg]

In fact the first 5 books of the bible are all traditionally credited to Moses. They are referred to as the Pentateuch.

Genesis, Exodos, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Of course the last verses of Deuteronomy describe Moses' death so there's a bit of explaining to do there :c)

[CLOWN TICKLE]

God word written by man attributed to Moses

[Tatty Rollox]

..... well then, here is Moses ...

[NH]

I thought the authors of all of the Old Testament were lost in the mists of time, whereas the New Testament is mostly Paul writing endless letters.

If you have a genuine belief in the contents within, though, you can't go far wrong with "God." I suppose it takes omnipotence to write something longer than the Harry Potter book before last...

[chillipepper]

thanx to everyone who answered.......even tatters very good!now explain wit to my eight year old son

[Lonnie]

The first five books, are known as the books of Moses, although the reality is that they were probably written down years later after being handed down orally.

If Clanads around, he's the one who could answer this more acurately.

[chakka35]

From experience I can tell you that Clanad will give you only a religious answer. The brutal fact is that we don't know who wrote any of the Bible except the NT epistles, some of which were actually written by Paul. The rest of the Old and New Testaments were written anonymously. And those who think that they were inspired by their God have to explain why he had such a very confused view of his own cosmos in the first few verses of Genesis and why he gives two mutually-contradictory accounts of his own son's birth.

[queenansarel]

who cares the Bible was tampered with by King James so who knows but if you read the Bible with an understanding maybe you will figure out by your self