They could have 'built' upon each other
Many of the Biblical authors didn't even have access to what the others had written. But even if they had, consider what would happen if you put the writings of doctors who wrote on medical subjects over the last 1,500 years into a single volume. Do you think you would have a unified whole---or would it be a chaotic mess? Suppose you took forty journalism students from the same culture who speak the same language and had them write on the kinds of subjects that the Bible covers. Do you think it would be a harmonized and unified literary masterpiece?

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