The history of the Christian Bible that is used today, the process of its compilation has gone through a long period of time. It began with the formation of the Torah as explained in the previous article.
According to historians, approximately in the third century in 260 BC, King Tolemy 2 Philadelphus formed a team to translate the Torah into Greek and called the Septuagint.
Furthermore, in 200 BC several apocryphal books appeared including the books of Sirach, Tobit, Prologue, Judith, Solomon's Wisdom, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees (the story is taken from the history of the Maccabee rebellion).