Bible
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- "If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double", an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls.’" --Charles McGrath, New York Times, May 6, 2007
The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings or books of Judaism and Christianity. The bible was the first mass produced book.
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Etymology
From Latin biblia, a collection of books (since there are many books in the Bible), eventually from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material.
See also
- Biblical stories
- Bad women of the bible
- Illustrated bible
- Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible
- Doré's English Bible (1866)
See also
Biblical topics
- Alcohol in the Bible
- Circumcision in the Bible
- Crime and punishment in the Bible
- Ethics in the Bible
- Murder in the Bible
- Slavery in the Bible
- Women in the Bible
- Summary of Christian eschatological differences
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