Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Bible contains between sixty-six and eighty-one books depending on the tradition, written over more than a thousand years from the twelfth century BCE to the end of the first century CE.
The Bible was originally written in Hebrew with some sections in Aramaic and Koine Greek, and the Septuagint translation was completed by 132 BCE for Greek-speaking Jews.
Scholars discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 in caves near Qumran, revealing that biblical texts were not as uniform as previously thought and showing variants from the Masoretic Text which dates to 1008 CE.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church maintains the widest canon with 81 books, including the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees, written in the Ge'ez language.
Biblical texts inspired movements such as abolitionism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the civil rights movement, while providing roots for modern laws on due process and justice.