Bible Question: When the Bible was first written, it wasn't divided into chapters and books and versus. Why did they do that and who did that? |
Bible Answer: Greetings and welcome to the forum. Exodus was believed to be the first book of the bible written in the 15th century B.C. The Bible consists of two great parts, called the Old and New Testaments, separated by an interval of nearly four hundred years. These Testaments are further divided into sixty-six books, thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New. Twenty-two of them are historical, five are poetical, eighteen are prophetical, twenty-one are epistolary. They contain logical arguments, poetry, songs and hymns, history, biography, stories, parables, fables, eloquence, law, letters and philosophy. There are at least thirty-six different authors, who wrote in three continents, in many countries, in three languages, and from every possible human standpoint. Among these authors were kings, farmers, mechanics, scientific men, lawyers, generals, fishermen, ministers and priests, a tax-collector, a doctor, some rich, some poor, some city bred, some country born -- thus touching all the experiences of men extending over 1500 years. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, a Shemitic language, except that parts of the books of Ezra, Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in the Chaldee language. The New Testament is written wholly in Greek. The present division of the whole Bible into chapters was made by Cardinal Hugo Deuteronomy St. Gher about 1250. The present division into verses was introduced by Robert Stephens in his Greek Testament, published in 1551, in his edition of the Vulgate, in 1555. The first English Bible printed with these chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible, in 1560. Hope this answers your questions. prayon (MacArthur Study Bible, Smith's Bible Dictionary) |
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