The Bible

in #bible8 years ago

The Bible was written in three languages
Those languages are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Most of our Old Testament was written in Hebrew.
The New Testament was written in Greek, the commonly-spoken language of the time.

The longest book of the Bible is not Psalms, it’s Jeremiah
Most resources claim that the book of Psalms is the longest book in the Old Testament, and therefore the Bible.
The claim is probably wrong.
If the calculation is based on the number of verses or the number of “chapters” or the number of pages, it is correct but it is the combination of 5 books
At 42,659 words and being a single book in every version of the Bible, Jeremiah is actually the longest single book in the Bible.

The shortest book of the Bible is 3, John
You can read this book in about one minute. The book right before it, 2 John, is the second-shortest book of the Bible.

The Bible was written by more than 40 traditional authors
The Bible was written by people from diverse occupational backgrounds
Parts of the Bible were written by kings. Half of the Psalms, a good chunk of Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes seem to be penned by royalty.
But other parts of the Bible are written by farmers, fishermen, a tentmaker, homeless prophets, a doctor, a professional scribe, vocational musicians, pastors, etc.

The Bible was written:

over a 1600-year span (from 1500 B.C to A.D. 100) The time of the writing was from 1500 BC to AD 100.
over 40 generations
over 40 authors from many walks of life (i.e. – kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars)
in different places (i.e. – wilderness, dungeon, palaces)
at different times (i.e. – war, peace)
in different moods (i.e. – heights of joy, depths of despair)
on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe)

In three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)Some of the “First” and “Second” books were divided after they were written
If the books of 1 & 2 Kings were combined, they would be the longest book of the Bible. I bring that up because 1 & 2 Kings were originally written as one book. The same goes for 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Chronicles.

Only one NT book’s authorship is unknown
Several books of the Old Testament were written by people unnamed. Tradition doesn’t identify the authors of Joshua–Kings, Esther, or Job. Plus, many of the books with traditional authors assigned to them were likely penned and edited by other people. For example, while Jonah is the traditional author of Jonah, there’s a good case to be made that some later scribe wrote this satire of the compassionate God, the rebellious prophet, and the repentant cows.
But the New Testament assigns authorship to each of its letters but one: the book of Hebrews.
Authorship of this book has been debated for centuries. Augustine was sure Paul wrote it. Luther was convinced it was the eloquent Apollos. Tertulian assigns the work to Barnabas. But we just don’t know

The Bible contains 1189 chapters.
The Old Testament has 929 chapters and the New Testament has 260 chapters.
The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, and the shortest is Psalm 117.
The longest verse is Esther 8:9, and the shortest is John 11:35.

• “The Bible” ranks first among literary works by number of languages they have been translated into (Almost 2454 languages)

• The Bible is about 611,00 words long in original language

• There are at least 185 songs in the Bible

• About 150 of these are in the book of Psalms.

• The word “Trinity” is never mentioned in the Bible.

• The Bible was written on three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa

• There are 21 dreams recorded in the Bible

• And most of them are had by two different men named Joseph

• Chapters were introduced to the Bible in 1238 by Cardinal Hugo de S. Caro. Verse divisions were not added until 1551 by Robertus Stephanus

• Historically it has been said that the Bible is the most sold book of all time with over 5billion estimated sales

• The Bible Never Contradicts Itself

• There are more than 3,200 verses with fulfilled prophecy either within the Bible itself or since the Bible was written.

• Interestingly China is the largest supplier of Bibles

• The only two birthday occasions that are mentioned in Bible ended up in murder (Genesis 40:20-22 and Matthew 14: 6-10)

• Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world

• Bible is the most highlighted Kindle book ever

• Judas sold Jesus for the equivalent of 4 months’ pay of a working man

• Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random to be guided by whatever verse they see first

• Swearing on the Bible is forbidden by the bible

• The Bible was Isaac Newton’s greatest passion, writing more about religion than science & Mathematics

• When Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia, felt unwell, he would eat a few paged of the Bible

• There is no Physical description of Jesus in Bible

• In 1631, a huge reprint of the King James Bible was recalled and burnt due to a single typo: The Seventh Commandment stated “Thou shalt commit adultery.

• Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even overtly sexual

• The phrase “God never gives you more than you can handle” never appears in the Bible and actually the opposite is said many times

• There is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called ‘Da Jesus Book

• In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald

• Satan was never named “Lucifer.” The only use of the word Lucifer in the Bible was by Isaiah, who was referring to the fall of Babylon, not Satan

• The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable type

• Christopher Columbus showed a keen interest in the Bible and in Biblical prophecies, and would often quote biblical texts in his letters and logs.

• In Europe before the 17th century, dinosaur fossils were generally believed to be the remains of giants and other biblical creatures

• God is never mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Esther

• The only country to have a Bible on its national flag is the Dominican Republic

• Jesus’ name translated from Hebrew to English would be ‘Joshua’. We get the name ‘Jesus’ by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English

• Jesus never talks about homosexuality in the Bible

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