Bible

The name ”Bible” derives from the plural Greek word ’’biblia’’ (little scrolls or books), this is where the english word Bible comes from, which is similar to the name of the phoenician city Byblos, where papyrus was exported but not originating from it.

The collection of books which we call "the Bible" are these: The Scriptures, The Holy Scriptures; The Word; The Word of Truth; The Law and the Prophets; The Old and New Testaments. During the time it took to write the books of the Bible, probably over 1200 years, the writings were circulated individually or in groups. It was not until the 4th century A.D that the books were all put in a single volume.

NT, whose texts are more homogenous than those of OT, contains 27 books and was written during the first two centuries C.E. in Greek.

The Bible is considered a holy? book by most christians?. fundamentalist? christians even consider it to be infallible, inerrant word of God.

The name ”Bible” derives from the Greek ’’biblia’’ (books), which again derives from the name of the phoenician city Byblos, where papyrus was exported.

The Bible is a far cry from an integrated coherent work. Instead, it consists of 66 very different texts from very different ages, which each was written with different goals and audiences in mind. Briefly stated, it’s a merger of two canonical sets of texts, which in the christian tradition are called “The New Testament?” (NT) and “The Old Testament?” (OT).

OT, which contains 39 books, takes up three times as much space as NT and is the literature of the jewish people written down over the centuries primarily in Hebrew, but some of it is in Aramaic.

NT, whose texts are more homogenous than those of GT, contains 27 books and was written during the first two centuries C.E. in Greek.

That the two “testaments” are canonical, means that someone chose those texts among many others and decided that exactly those were worthy of being part of the collection of texts (“canon” is derived from Greek and can be translated to “guiding line”).

The Bible is considered a holy? book by most christians?. fundamentalist? christians even consider it to be infallible.

The Bible is a far cry from an integrated coherent work. Instead it consists of 66 very different texts from very different ages, which each was written with different goals and audiences in mind. Briefly stated it’s a merge of to canonical sets of texts, which in the christian tradition is called “The New Testament?” (NT) and “The Old Testament?” (OT).

The name ”Bible” derives from the greek ’’biblia’’ (books), which again derives from the name of the phoenician city Byblos, from where papyrus were exported.

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The name ”Bible” derives from the greek ’’biblia’’ (books), which again derives from the name of the phoenical (TODO check navn) city Byblos, from where TODO papyrus were exported.

The Bible is a far cry from a TODO helstøbt coherent work. Instead it consists of 66 very different texts from very different ages, which each was written with different goals and audiences in mind. Briefly stated it’s a merge of to canonical sets of texts, which in the christian tradition is called “The New Testament?” (NT) and “The Old Testament?” (OT).

OT, which contains 39 books, takes up three times as much space as NT, is the litterature of the jewish people written down over the centuries primarily in hebrew, but some of it is in aramaic.

NT, whose texts are more homogenous than those of GT, contains 27 books and is written during the first to centuries C.E. in greek.

That the two “testaments” are canonical, means that someone have chosen those texts among many others and decided that exactly those were worthy of being part of the collection of texts (“canon” is derived from greek and can be translated to “guiding line”).

Views of the Bible

The Bible is considered a holy? book by most christians?. The fundamentalistic? christians even consider it to be infallible.

Categories: ReligiousScripture

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