In 2026, modern scholarship recognizes that the Bible was not "made" by a single person, but is the result of a complex, collaborative process spanning over 1,000 years. The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) was composed primarily between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE by various anonymous scribes, priests, and prophets in ancient Israel. The New Testament was written in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, largely in Greek, by early Christian followers. While tradition attributes books to figures like Moses, David, or the Apostles, scholars today identify multiple layers of "redactors" or editors who compiled oral traditions into the final canon. The definitive "selection" of which books were included was finalized by early Church councils, such as the Council of Rome (382 CE) and the Council of Carthage (397 CE), which standardized the texts used by the global Christian community.