Author

Books by Various

The Bible has no single author. The Hebrew scriptures were composed and edited over approximately a thousand years by priests, prophets, historians, and wisdom teachers whose individual identities are mostly unknown. The New Testament was written in Greek during the first century CE, primarily by followers of Jesus, including the apostle Paul, whose letters predate the Gospels. The 1611 King James Version, commissioned by King James I of England and produced by a committee of scholars, remains the most influential English translation and one of the most important texts in the history of the English language.