<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 were the books of the hebrew bible written
when were the books of the hebrew bible written
the 5th century BCE
the 5th century BCE