I don’t disagree that one can generally talk about books in that way, but given what I know about how biblical authorship, I think it’s an incorrect (or as you say, misleading) way of describing the Bible specifically.
Of all the books that became canon in the Christian Bible, the most recent ones were written in the late 1st/early 2nd century CE. The later edits were additions, deletions, or alterations to these existing works rather than entirely new books on their own, and by the time those edits were made the books were already being used as scripture in Christian communities.
I’d liken it to The Hobbit. The first edition was published in 1937. In order to align more with The Lord of the Rings, a 2nd edition was published in 1951, and it contained significant changes to the the characterization of Gollum and the function of the One Ring. However, despite those changes, I would never say that, “The Hobbit was written in 1951.”
My final note: you can see in my first post that I agreed with the sentiment of the post I was responding to: that, “Christ would likely not quote documents written after his existence,” as you said. Many words have been put into the mouth of Jesus of Nazareth, because everything written about him came after he was too dead to make corrections.
I don’t disagree that one can generally talk about books in that way, but given what I know about how biblical authorship, I think it’s an incorrect (or as you say, misleading) way of describing the Bible specifically.
Of all the books that became canon in the Christian Bible, the most recent ones were written in the late 1st/early 2nd century CE. The later edits were additions, deletions, or alterations to these existing works rather than entirely new books on their own, and by the time those edits were made the books were already being used as scripture in Christian communities.
I’d liken it to The Hobbit. The first edition was published in 1937. In order to align more with The Lord of the Rings, a 2nd edition was published in 1951, and it contained significant changes to the the characterization of Gollum and the function of the One Ring. However, despite those changes, I would never say that, “The Hobbit was written in 1951.”
My final note: you can see in my first post that I agreed with the sentiment of the post I was responding to: that, “Christ would likely not quote documents written after his existence,” as you said. Many words have been put into the mouth of Jesus of Nazareth, because everything written about him came after he was too dead to make corrections.