The History of the Bible

The idea that the Bible represents a single book or even just a single collection of books is something that has a past and something that occurred in a rough point in time. The earliest translation of any kind of which we know of of any text that would ultimately make it into the Bible is in to Greek. This was likely executed in the city of Alexandria in northern Egypt so in the Nile Delta one of the the kind of economic and intellectual centers of the ancient world.