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This is another of those potential "trick questions."To be "Jew-ISH" is to be "Jew-LIKE"... or to have the characteristics of a Jew... or to adhere to the beliefs of the Jews. "Jew-ISH" people can be Gentiles who, although they aren't blood descendants of Judah, have adopted the beliefs of the Jews.

However... a "Jew" is a blood-descendant of the tribe of Judah. In which case, Moses, himself was NOT a Jew, but a LEVITE [descended from the tribe of Levi - see Exodus 2 for Moses' lineage:

"...there went a man of THE HOUSE OF LEVI, and took to wife a daughter of Levi..." (Ex.2:1-2 KJV).

This "Levite couple" created children, one of whom was Moses. But at the time of his birth, Moses' people, the ISRAELITES [twelve separate tribes; Reuben {Reubenites}, Levi {Levites}, Joseph {Josephites}, Zebulun {Zebulunites}, Judah {Jews}, Dan {Danites}, etc.]... DID NOT HAVE ANY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS to speak of, having been in Egyptian slavery for the past 400 years... except for the pagan rites, customs, traditions and gods of the Egyptians.

In other words... when Moses was born, there was no Jewish religion! In fact, approximately 10 generations of these Egyptian slaves had lost sight and track of their father Abraham's God and His Laws.

Upon, their liberation from Egypt, however, through Moses [the Levite] Abraham's God [Jesus Christ - see John 1:3] began to reveal to the Israelites His Commandments, Laws and Statutes [see Gen.26:5] -- what the world thinks of today as the "Jewish" religion -- which Moses wrote down for us, today [Acts 7:38].

So, the writers of The Bible... as the question asks it... were ALL "Jew-ISH"! But, not all of them were JEWS! As cited... Moses was not a Jew, but a Levite.

Following the advent of the Torah and the Commandments of God...

Joshua, the son of Nun, would be regarded as Jew-ISH, today... but he was not a Jew. He was of the tribe of Ephraim [Joseph]: "Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun." (Num.13:8)

Samuel was "Jew-ISH"... but not a Jew. He was also a Levite. You can go right through the books of the Bible and trace the descendancy of the writers of the Bible. All of them knew the Laws of their father Abraham's God... believed in his God... and may be thought of as "Jewish."

But, even Paul records: "...For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN! So, while Paul, too, was Jew-ISH... he was NOT a Jew. He was a Benjaminite. Even though he said, for the sake of Christ... he was whatever he needed to be:

"To the Jews I have become like a Jew for the winning of Jews... to men who have no written law [Gentiles], like one without any law, though I am not without God's law but especially under Christ's law, to win the men who have no written law. To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them." (I Cor.9:20-22 WNT William's New Testament)

So, yes... all of the writers of the Bible were "Jew-ISH"... but not all of them were "Jews."

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What about King Nebuchadnezzar? He wasn’t a Jew or β€œJew-ISH”.
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There are probably many of them, but three come to mind right away: Moses, Paul and Titus.

Moses was born of a man and woman of the tribe of "Levi," making him a "Levite."

Paul writes: "...I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin." (Rom.11:1) Which makes him a "Benjaminite."

Titus, of course, was a "Greek." (Gal.2:3)

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All writers of the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh) were Jewish. Even Moses. Among Jewish people today, the modern term Jewish refers to anyone descended from Abraham through Isaac. It originally referred only to people of the tribe of Judah, but that distinction is not followed in Jewish tradition.

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Concerning the Hebrew Bible ("O.T."), all of the books were authored by Israelites (Jews) except one. According to a tradition in the Talmud (Bava Bathra 15b), Job was a non-Jew. Though it was Moses who penned the words (ibid 14b), they were originally spoken by Job and his non-Jewish friends.

Other than that, the Hebrew Bible was spoken and written by Jews.

Getting into semantic dissertations of putative differences between Jews and Levites would be completely disingenuous and misleading, since all Israelite tribes are also sometimes referred to as Hebrews or Jews. Any descendant of Jacob, who was named Israel (Genesis ch.35), may be called Jewish, by dint of our having rejected idolatry. "Whoever disbelieves in idolatry is a Yehudi (Jew)" (Talmud, Megillah 13a).

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All the books of the Old Testament were written by Jews.

We do not know who wrote the four New Testament gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) because they were originally written anonymously and only attributed to the apostles whose names they now bear later in the second century. So it is possible, even likely, that none of the authors was Jewish.

Paul was a Jew, but some of the epistles attributed to Paul are now known to have been written pseudonymously, long after his death. Since we do not know who the authors really were, we do not know which were written by Jews, if any.

We do not know who wrote the epistles known as the Epistles of James, John, Jude and Peter, although they were written pseudonymously in the names of Jewish disciples. We therefore do not know whether they were Jewish, but in all likelihood they were not.

John of Patmos, the author of the Book of Revelation was not Jewish.

So, in the New Testament, we can only say that Paul, and probably the author of Hebrews, were Jewish. Most of the New Testament was written by anonymous authors who were probably not Jews.

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