Biblical term for smarky1/25/2024 ![]() Speaking of books and authors, it is important to note that the first book printed on Gutenberg’s printing press was a Bible. ![]() They frequently alluded to the Bible, and the language of the Bible is deeply embedded in the thoughts and writings of our history and culture. As a former high school English teacher, I found authors such as Shakespeare, Hemingway, Mehlville, Twain, Dickens, Orwell, Steinbeck, Shelley, and others difficult to fully grasp without at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Bible. The Bible undergirds much of our classic literature. Yet, these writings compiled over the period of 1600 years all weave together in unparalleled unity, pointing us towards the truth of God and the salvation that is ours in Christ. Inside your Bible is a collection of sixty-six unique and separate books - writings from different times, different nations, different authors, different situations and different languages. It was also around this time that these collections of writings began to be put together in a certain order, and this collection of letters and writings started shaping into the one-volume book that we are familiar with today. Chrysostom first refers to the Old and New Testament together as ta biblia (the books), the Latin form of biblos. The collection of these writings, including the New Testament, were first called the Bible somewhere around the fourth century in the writings of John Chrysostom. So even then there was something unique about the words being written, that these were the words of God, and that the words of God were subject to being tampered with and manipulated. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures…” (bold emphasis added) In II Peter 3:16, Peter addressed the writings of Paul, “ He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. Yet, even the New Testament writers seemed to understand that the things being written about Jesus were to be considered part of Scripture. It is interesting that the Bible never refers to itself as "the Bible." So when did people start calling these sacred writings by the word Bible? Again, the Bible is not really a book, but a collection of books. Many familiar words such as bibliography, bibliophile, library, and even bibliophobia (fear of books) are based on the same Greek root word. Because of this association, the Greeks likely took the name of this city and adapted it to create their word for book. Located in modern-day Lebanon, Byblos was a Phoenician port city known for its export and trade of papyrus. It is thought the word Biblos itself is likely taken from an ancient seaport city named Byblos. However, take a step further back and the same Greek word also means "scroll" or "parchment." Of course, the first words of Scripture would have been written on parchment, and then copied to scrolls, then those scrolls would be copied and distributed and so on. ![]() ![]() The word Bible itself is simply a transliteration of the Greek word bíblos (βίβλος), meaning "book." So the Bible is, quite simply, The Book. So where does the word "Bible" come from, and what does it actually mean? The influence of the Bible is unmistakable.
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