Who was the author of the Bible?  To effectively answer this question, one must first look at the area of communication and its principles.  We must ask these questions, “Who is the communicator?  What is the message?  Who is the receiver?”  In defining these three basic dimensions of the law of communication we will define the communicator as the one behind the text, or the author – the one conveying his/her intentions;[1] the communicated message of the communicator is found inside the text, we will call this the meaning of the text as text; and the receiver as the one who is in front of text.  In applying this rule of communication to the Bible, Graeme Goldsworthy says,

“The first question arises as to who the sender or communicator is.  Is it God, whose word we believe the Bible to be?  Or is it a number of different human beings whom we believe actually wrote or compiled the documents as we have them in the Bible?  If we assume, on the basis of the Bible’s own testimony about itself, that God effectively revealed his word to the human authors, we need to clarify what we understand about those involved in this double-authorship, and the relationship between them.”[2]

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