The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-09-29
INTEREsT|MGfACTS
ABOUT THE BIBLE.
Which Perhaps You Did
Not Know.
SOME STATISTICS OF VALUE
For the Benefit of Those
Who Love to Read
The Holy Book.


Of which 929 are in the Old Tesla
inent AMI 260 in the New.
There are 41.173 verses in the King
James edition of the Bible. 33.2l4 in
the Old and 1853 in the New Tesla
ment.
There are 774,746 words in the
Bible, according 10 the figures Of
Home, Soften student, VINO spent
three years counting them.
The total number 81 letters in The
Bible is computed by the same su-
thority TO be 3.jc6 $50.
The first printed Greek Testaments
were Those If Erasmus, PUBLISHED g..
Basel by Froben in 1916.
The first Biblical illustrative ut
consisted in the symbolic frescoes Of
The Catacombs.
The earliest Bible pictures were
painted on the church walls ins7'ad
cf being bound between the book
covers.
A Bile printed in 1910 had a
line OF scmi-cockney dialect in MAJ
thew e.43: Who hath ears 10 hear
let him hear"
Hellenistic Greek, the language OF
the New Testament is the simpiif.ed
dialect # Attic Greek used BY ,he
Semitic peopl Hcllenized as result
# the clnqutsts Of Alexander.
The "Place-makels Bible" il 50
called from typographical error
which makes Matt. $50, read Blessed
are the place-makers" instead OF
peace-makers
The Bug Bible is so called because
of It's rendering Of psalm 9l:5:
Afraid Of bugs by night" Our pres
eDt version "a. -. 15j1) reads ter
ror by night
To celebrate the advance OF the
printers ant. particularly its increase
IN sped CaXtOn memorial Bibl"
was wholly printed and bound in
we've fouls ia 1s77. Only 100 'np-
.es werc sIUCk off.
The Geneva version is som-times
called th- "Prceches Bible" from its
r,Lderii OF Genesis 81. Making
themseiyes brooches out OF fig
leaves" This translation. done by the
English eXilts II Geneva was the
English family Bible during the
reign Of Elizabeth, and was sup
planted b. The version Of King James
in 1861
Tie Treacle Bible got lis name
from IT. rendering OF jeremiah >:22:
rs there no treacle in Gilead." in
stead of balm IN G.lead. Il was
printed IN 1865. The same text was
rendered in the Douai version. 1909,
rs there rusin in Gilead?" This
Bible was called the ROsin Bible.
Almost every form of literature
IS represented in the Bible from the
war song. the lament and the lyric
Ia the rhapsody and the philosophical
drama. Parallels. enigmas. proverbs.
stories, biographies, epistles, oratipns
and prayers are all found in this
library of literary activity Of the Is
raelitish race.
The first Bible printed from NOV
able metal types WIS issued by GU
enberg at Mainz in 1452. 1t is some
times called the "MaZarian Bible" be-
cause of the copy that first attract
I'd the attention OF photographers was
found some 800 years later among The
books OF Cardinal Mnzarin. H. was
discovered by Dupure hundred years
after TIC death Of Mazarin. which &C.
Cured in 1864.
Aranaic. one Of the Languages
which is used in the Old Testament,
was the Semitic dialect spoken by
the people north of Canaan when the
Israelites took that country. From
the days of the Babylonian exile,
Aramaic Was used rs the medium Of
communication between Jews and
other Semitic people and gradually
supplan.ed even Hebrew in Pales-
tine, where il became the common
language about l.. c. zoo.
The period In which the Old Test
ament was being written covers one
thousand years, while the period OF
tho composition of the New Testa-
ment covers about one hundred
wears. The oldest poems in the Old
Testament date back To aboua the
wear p. C. 1900. while some of the
Psalms and Book Of Daniel a'el
placed at the year p. c. 100. The
arliest part OF the New TesihmerN
WAS written about the year A. ID. 30
and the latest part about A. ID. 100. /
The original languages Of The Bible
are Hebrew. Arsmaic aud Heiienislle