The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-19
FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE.
Some Uncommon information for Stu
 dents of the Good Book.

From the Kansas City Star.
 The King James Bible contains 50 books.
 Fourteen apocryphal books of the Bible are recorded.
 The Bible chapters number 11S9, of which 929 are in the Old Testament and 260 are in the New.
 There are 41,173 verses In the King James edition of the Bible, 33,214 in the Old and 1850 in the New Testament
 There are 774746 words in the Bible, &C., cordng to the figures of Horne, Scotch student, who spent three years counting them.
 The total number of letters in the Bible is computed by the same authority to be 3,566, 4SO.
 The first printed Greek Testaments were those of Erasmus. published at Basel by Froben in 1516.
 The first Biblical illustrative art consist ed in the symbolic frescoes of the Cata- combs
 The earliest Bible pictures were painted on the church walls instead of being bound between the book covers.
 A Bible printed in 1slO had line of semi-cocAney dialect In Matthew xiii, 43: "Who hath ears to ear let him hear"
 Hellenistic Greek, the language of the New Testament, is the simplified dialect of Attic Greek used by the Semitic people Hellenized as a result of the conquesta of Alexander.
 The "Placemakers' Bible" so called . txy xtrbi ak Matt v g, read Blessed are the place. makers instead of peacemakers.
 The Bug Bible is so called because of it's rendering of Psalm xei., 5: Afraid of bugs by night" Our present version GA D., 1551) reads Terror by night"
 To celebrate the advance of the printers art, particularly it's increase in speed, . Caxton memorial Bible was wholly print ed and bound in 12 hours in 1877. Only 100 copies struck off
 The Geneva version is sometimes called the Brooches Bible,'' from It's rendering of Genesis ii., ': Making themselves brooches of fig leaves. This translation done by the English exiles at Geneva, was the English family Bible during the reign of Elizabeth and was suppanted by the version of King James in 1561.
 The Treacle Bible got it's name from its rendering of Jeremiah will, 22: 'Is there no treacle in Gilead instead of balm in Gilead It was printed In 1868. The samo text was rendered in the Doust version, 1869 lis there no rosin in Gilead?" This Bible was called the Resin Bible.
 Almost every form of literature fs rep- resented in the Bible, from the war song, the lament and the lyric to the rhapsody and the philosophical drama. Parables, enigmas, proverbs, stories, biographies. epistles oratons and prayers are all found in this library of the literary activ- ities of the Israelitish race.
 The first Bible printed from moveable metal types was issued by Gutenberg at Mainz. It is sometimes called tho 'Mazarin Bible.' because the copy that first attracted the attention of bibliog- raphers was found some 300 years later among the books of Cardinal Mazarin. 1t was discovered by Depure 100 years after the death of Mazarin, which occurred in 1861.
 Aramaic, one of the languages which is used in the Old Testament, was the Se- mitic dialect spoken by the people north of Canaan, when the Isrealites took that country. From the days of the Babylo- nian exile Aramaic was used as the medi- um of communication between Jews and other Semitic people and gradually sup planted Hebrew even in Palestine where it became the common language about 
 B. c. 200.
 The period in which the Old Testament was being written covers 1000 years, while the period of the composition of the New Testament covers about 100 years The oldest poems in the Old Tes- lament date back to about the year B. c. 1900 while some of the Psalms and Book of Daniel are placed at the year B. c. 200. The earliest part of the New Testament was written about the year A. D. 50 and the latest part about A. D. 150.
 The original languages of the Bible are Hebrew, Aramaic and Hellenistic Greek. Hebrew is the Semitic dialect of the in- habitants of Canaan adopted by the Is- realities when they entered that territory. It ha'r no expressive conjunctions or par ticiplns. This renders 1t impossible to express in Hebrew delicate shades of log ical or philosophical thought. However its idioms are most picturesque and paint viyid mental pictures.
 The word Bible is derived from the Latin name Biblia, which was treated as a singular although 1t comes from tho Greek neuter plural, meaning little books This Greek dimnutive was de- rived from byblus or papyrus, the famous material on which ancient books were written. The title Bible was first used about the middle of the second Christian century in the so-called second epstle of Clement (xiv., 9.