El Antiguo Testamento en la lengua griega fue escrito después de la conquista de [[Alejandro el Grande]] alrededor de 130 aC, y se conoce como la [[Septuaginta]]. Esto implica una fecha aún más temprana del canon del Antiguo Testamento establecido generalmente aceptado entrar dentro del siglo quinto hasta el tercero siglo aC (400 a 200 aC).<ref>[[Wikipedia:Old_Testament|Old Testament]] By Wikipedia</ref>
==Textual ReliabilityConfiabilidad textual==The oldest books of the Bible are certainly the five books of the Torah and Los libros más antiguos de la Biblia son sin duda los cinco libros de la Torá y ''Job''. In En {{Bible Biblia ref|booklibro=I_KingsIReyes|chapcap=6|versesversos=1}}, Solomon is stated to have begun building the Temple se dice que Salomón ha comenzado la construcción del Templo ''in the 480th year after the children of en el año 480 después de que los hijos de Israel were come up out of the land of Egyptsubieron de la tierra de Egipto''. It had been established by scholars and historians that Solomon had begun building the Temple in the fourth year of his reign; this is variously thought to have taken place in 961 BC or 1015 BC, making the [[date of the Exodus]] under Moses to have been 1446 BC or 1491 BC. During the following forty years Moses wrote the Torah and ''Job'', completing them before his death at [[Mt. Nebo]] about 1406 BC or 1451 BC. According to biblical scholar and historian Robert D. Wilson the Torah as it stands dates from the time of Moses, the five books constitute one continuous work, and was written by a single individual, Moses himself.<ref>Wilson, Robert D. ''A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament'', Sunday School Times, Inc, Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania|PA]], 1926, p. 11.</ref>
The remaining books of the Old Testament were written at various times since the death of Moses, with ''Malachi'', the last Old Testament book, being written about 455 BC. During this period each of the books was written and re-written on parchment or papyrus, with the editors taking great care in their work; a single biblical book hand-written today can take weeks to complete. The older scrolls were disposed of by burial or systematic destruction when worn from normal usage; as a result, the oldest surviving examples of biblical manuscripts are those which have been carefully preserved either by direct actions of people (such as monasteries), or by removal from forces of decay. Currently, the oldest surviving manuscripts are those found within the caves of Qumran in 1948 and known as the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]], dating between 250 BC to AD 70; the complete ''Isaiah'' scroll of this collection dates to 150 BC