Well you say oral tradition (which works for me as that IS how things were handed down in societies that had no writing...the use of abstract symbole to represent memories...) was recorded about 2000 years ago...(I believe that is what you meant)

But I expect that since writing was about 2000 years old when Moses lived (invented circa 3100 BC in Sumeria, a later in Egypt, Persia (did you know they invented the post office and had a "pony express??), Greece etc) , that a book as important as The Bible would have been written down by 2000 years ago...maybe at the time of Moses 1300 BC...and in the earliest instance oral traditions that were handed down were then written down....just as the Gospels were written down in their times

WRT to The Bible, that too was a living document in the sense that it was translated, updated, phrased in current vernacular (ie St James version) so lots of iopportunity to change words and perhaps even underlying ideas...but I expect the main themes made it through

And nowhere did I call you ignorant, and nowhere did I say The Bible was the perfect word of God. I said I believe it was written by thoughtful individuals inspired by their belief in God as a means to record how to live according to God's Will.

QUOTE "This required thoughtful living, questions, learning, understanding, and seeking inspiration in words written before their times, and what was happening in their own"

WRT to accomplishement, no one discovers anything without standing on the shoulders of others. We have today simply discovered more and our modern lives are such because of the accomplishments of historical figures. In the past, people were a superstitious lot because they had not yet understood their environment. As we learned more...and got past censors ...we became more sophisticated as a civilization.

And even that can be challenged as "civilization" is perhaps not an apt description when we take those two steps back.

As an aside but as an example of what I mean...just watched "How To Become A Tyrant" on Netflix...interesting ideas and I expect a veiled warning about the likes of Trump. You will like it I think.




If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop