What was the Bible before the Bible existed?

>>17825070 (OP)
The Quran exists eternally in Heaven.

>>17825070 (OP)
Baby tanakh

>>17825070 (OP)
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Most kings, philosophers, and poets would recite verses from both poems, depending on the situation.

>>17825070 (OP)

>>17825070 (OP)
>What was the Bible before the Bible existed?
the torah, the prophets, the psalms, the gospels, the epistles, and the revelation.

They all existed separately. Most Jews could recount the entire Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible, written by Moses) orally. Rabbis and leaders would read from the Prophet scrolls and sing psalms during Passover.
Then Jesus came
Then the gospels would be distributed separately. Early churches, like the one in Corinth, would misinterpret the Gospels and start practicing heresy and the early Christians, like Paul, would send epistles telling them to cut that shit out.
Then John wrote his revelation.

Again, most of these holy scriptures stayed separated until Pope Damasus I who overlooked the Council of Rome in 382, which set about determining canon. He then commissioned St Jerome to translate it all, and compile it into the first full Bible, the Latin Vulgate.

>>17825627
> Most Jews could recount the entire Torah orally

Bullshit.

>>17825639
You'd be surprised what memory can do when reading literally wasn't invented yet.

>>17825083
These were made along the same time just by different people

>>17825647
I'm sure most Jews could remember the general narrative structure and major plotlines to a very impressive extent

I'm just saying they could not 'recount the entire Torah' as if they could remember word for word the entire thing

>>17825627
>overlooked
Means ‘neglected’. I think you mean ‘oversaw’.