Are there any Bibles with the text presented in the order it was written?

The trouble is figuring out the order in which it was written. And we're pretty sure that quite a few of the books mix passages from multiple sources, written at different times, but not necessarily in a clear order.

The Torah, for instance, contains material from one source that refers to God using the Name (known as J because that's the German letter corresponding to the first letter, a Y sound); another source that uses the plural word for divine being (E, for Elohim); another source that's a collection of priestly material like most of the detailed stuff in Leviticus; possibly contributions by the editor who combined these items; and the Deuteronomist tradition that produced the last book of the Torah and the early books of the Prophets (Joshua and Judges). Un-mixing the text of the first four books is not a trivial undertaking.

The Gospels present a similar difficulty: Mark was clearly a source for both Matthew and Luke, and so was another source (known as Q) that hasn't survived separately. But each had their own additional sources, and while Matthew's may not have been an earlier writing, Luke's appears to be; the material in Luke that isn't common to Mark or Q is very directly translated from Hebrew and may be the Hebrew Gospel said to have been the earliest of them all. John is also regarded by some textual scholars as being built on an earlier work known as the Book of Signs.

Paul's (and pseudo-Pauline) letters are sorted by length, that being the way manuscripts were usually collected and bound together. Re-sorting them by date is a continual sport for Paul scholars. Just disentangling the mixed-up material from multiple letters to the Corinthians is a major task.

You can, however, get a bit of general ordering for the Old Testament by acquiring a copy of the Hebrew Tanakh in its traditional order. While this leaves the Torah unsorted, and there's some older (or arguably older) material in the Writings, like some Psalms (and, arguably, Job), the general sequence of Torah followed by Prophets (which includes the histories from the Prophets period, like Kings) followed by Writings does put much of the earlier material toward the beginning. And it places the Chronicles, generally agreed to be the last one written, at the end. The Jewish Publication Society has an excellent, well-notated English translation.

While such Bibles may have been attempted, realistically we just don't know when or who wrote most of the books. For example, it it fairly clear that Job is one of, if not the oldest book and there is significant reason to suspect that much of the pentateuch (first five books of the Bible) were "stitched together" and edited around 600 BCE. Further, Paul never quotes the Gospels except for one "prayer" or benediction which is more likely that the writer of the Gospel was quoting Paul.

No

Chronological order OF THE DATES has nothing to do with it. For example James (AD 44-49) would make no sense being presented before the four Gospels which were penned later.

The scholars did their jobs well.

There are some ordered by the dates of events recorded - but I'd like to point out that most of them follow an order determined by tradition rather than by scholarly analysis.

They are called "chronological Bibles"

http://www.christianbook.com/page/bibles/chronolog...

Yes, I have seen Bibles that are in chronological order. You can probably find them on Amazon.com by typing in the search box "Bible in chronological order" and i'm sure you will find some. Also, try christianbooks.com

I think I saw one online last week, don't recall what website it was on or the name of the Bible.

Here is a chart, however, that tells when each book was written, and the time periods that each covers:

"Table of the Books of the Bible"

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books-...

Yes. Google "chronological Bible", there's lots of them available.

Not that I know of. But it's easy to look up the dates of most of the books and read them accordingly if you're looking to read through it chronologically.

Not that I'm aware of

That would make for an interesting book. The New Testament would start at the writings of Paul, have the Gospels in the middle, and all the pastorals and the apocalypse at the end.