Who were the 40 men who wrote the Bible?
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The 40-author count is not unique to Jehovah's Witnesses, so I'll provide the names of the forty commonly-accepted authors. Note that the authorship of some books (Hebrews, for example) is debated, so the number and names vary slightly depending on which scholars you ask.
- Moses
- Joshua
- Samuel
- Ezra
- Jeremiah
- Nehemiah
- Mordecai
- Job
- Sons of Korah
- Asaph
- Heman
- Ethan
- Hezekiah
- David
- Solomon
- Agur
- Lemuel
- Isaiah
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
- Matthew
- John
- Mark
- Luke
- Paul
- James
- Peter
- Jude
See When was the Bible written and who wrote it? for a matchup of names to books, along with approximate dates of authorship.
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