Assuming Quote by Noam Chomsky

The Bible is a collection of writings by lots of different people written over maybe a thousand years, from a number of centuries before…

— John Goldingay

The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

“The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don’t often think…

— Adam Hamilton

“Since God is the author, the Bible is authoritative. It is absolute in its authority for human thought and behaviour. "As the Scripture has…

— Robertson McQuilkin

“Many modern Christians think of the New Testament as a book outside of history, something that was just suddenly there. Historians of Christianity, able…

— Jason BeDuhn

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

“The writings which make up the New Testament were none of them written to be a primary and sufficient source of information as to…

— Philip Hughes

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction of archaic…

— James John Courtenay

“Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of…

— Neil R. Lightfoot

The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

— Louis B. Mayer