In his book, Paul Wegner (2004) first considers the doctrines of revelation and inspiration, the general contents of the Old and the New Testaments, and the relationship between the old and the new covenants. Then he discusses the historical processes behind the gathering of Biblical texts and the factors, which influenced and settled the issue of canonicity between the Jewish and Christian communities. This part of his book also introduces textual criticism and compares manuscripts with divergent readings. The next part surveys early translations of the Hebrew and Greek texts. The book concludes with a detailed study of the English versions of the Bible, including recent translations and paraphrases (Wegner).
             The Bible has been viewed as really a history of the Jews (Jadczyk 2001), deriving from Yahweh, Elohim, Deuteronomy, priestly sources and a final editor who put these inputs together and added his own touches. Some conjectured from evidence that the Elohim version was written by a Levite priest advocate from the Mosaic line of priests at Shiloh and that the Yahweh part by an advocate of Aaronic priests and the Davidic royal house at Jerusalem. The concluded that each were written from oral sources of myth and legend mixed with some history after the supposed split of the two kingdoms and recombined after the Syrian conquest in the reign of Hezekiah. The author of the Yahweh version is believed to have lived between 848 and 722 BC and the author of the Elohim version between 922 and 722 BC. It is further assumed that the Elohim version is the older document and that the Yahweh version either represented a different perspective or changes had been added (Jadczyk).
             Other critics perceive that the Bible confronts four problems (The Truth Seekers 2003). The first is the precise meaning intended by the writers. The second is the content of the Bible itself. The third consists of contradictions and errors. And the fourth is ...