Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Bible is a collection of religious texts central to Christianity and Judaism and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. It is an anthology of instructions, stories, poetry, letters, and prophecies, with varying canonical texts across traditions.
The Christian Bible has estimated total sales of over five billion copies, making it the best-selling publication of all time. It is also preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work.
The Hebrew Bible was originally written in Hebrew with some parts in Aramaic. The New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, the common language of the western Roman Empire.
The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, has three divisions: the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. The name Tanakh is built from the first letters of each. The Torah was accepted as canon by the fifth century BCE, the Nevi'im in the third century BCE, and the Ketuvim closed between the second century BCE and the second century CE.
The Septuagint, called the LXX, is a Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. It was begun in Alexandria in the late third century BCE and completed by 132 BCE, believed to be the work of about seventy or seventy-two Hellenic Jewish scribes and elders, probably commissioned by Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
The Catholic Church canon has 73 books, most Protestant denominations have 66, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has 81. The New Testament holds 27 books that Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy share.
The oldest parts of the Hebrew Bible may date to around 1200 BCE, including the Song of Deborah and the Samson story. The New Testament had mostly formed by the 4th century CE.