What Is the Earliest Form of the Hebrew Bible?

Once all these guides passed from the scene, jesus and the first generation of apostles, there were a lot more texts produced in the first century than just the ones that we have in the bible. And so then there's a discerning process, a sifting process, which texts that come from this early period are the ones that rightly tell the story? Do you see why i've emboldened under and rightly? Because there could be a lot of texts out there that have misunderstood jesus or that have passed on a version of jesu's teachings that are distorted. So again, why do we read the hebrew bible? Cause it's easy. Icause we cause