<P> This table summarises the chronology of the main tables and serves as a guide to the historical periods mentioned . Much of the Hebrew Bible or the Protocanonical Old Testament may have been assembled in the 5th century BCE . The New Testament books were composed largely in the second half of the 1st century CE . The Deuterocanonical books fall largely in between . </P>
<P> This table summarises the chronology of the main tables and serves as a guide to the historical periods mentioned . Much of the Hebrew Bible or the Protocanonical Old Testament may have been assembled in the 5th century BCE . The New Testament books were composed largely in the second half of the 1st century CE . The Deuterocanonical books fall largely in between . </P>
when do we believe the new testament was first written down
when do we believe the new testament was first written down
largely in the second half of the 1st century CE
largely in the second half of the 1st century CE