The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-01-07
BIBLE FACTS NOT GENERALLY
KNOWN.
Good Books Chapters Number 1,1s9
and its Words Reach Total of 774.746.

Good Books Chapters Number 1,1s9
and its Words Reach Total of 774,746.
The King James Bible contains
sixty-six books, says the Kansas City
Star. Fourteen apocrypha1 books of
the Bible are recorded The bible
| chapters number 1,189, of which 929
are in the Old Testament and 26O in
the New.
There are 41,173 verses in the King
James edition Of the Bible, 1924 in
the Old and 1853 il the New Tesla
ment There are 774,746 words i'm the
Bible, according to the figures Of
Horne, 2 Scotch student, who spent
three years counting them.
The total number Of letters in the
Bible is computed by the same author
ity to be 3,566,4S0. The first printed
Greek TeStaments were those Of
Erasmus, published at Basel by Fro
ben in 1916
The first Biblical illustrative art
consisted in the symbolic frescoes of
the Catacombs.
The earliest Bible pictures were
painted on the church walls instead of
| being bound between the book covers
The Bible printed in 1910 had line
Of semi-Cockney dialects in Matthew
Kill, 43 Who has ears let him
hear"
\ The Placemakers' Bible il 90 called
from typographical error which
makes Matthew W, 3, read blessed
are the placemakers' instead Of
| "peacemakers."
The Bug Bible is SO called because
of it's rendering of Psalm XCI., S.
Afraid Of bugs by night" Our pres
ent version CA D. 1851 reads -
''Terrors by night"
To celebrate the advance of the
printers art, particularly it's increase
in speed, a Caxton Memorial Bible was
wholly printed and bound in twelve
hours in 1877. Only one hundred
copies were struck Off.
The Geneva aversion is sometimes
called "Breeches Bible" from its rem
dering of Genesis HI, Making
themselves breaches of fig leaves m
This translation, done by the English
exiles at Geneva, was the English fam
lily Bible during the reign Of Elizabeth
and was supplanted by the versioning
of James in 1911.
The Treacie Bible got its name from
its rendering of jeremiah VIII, % -
rs there no treacle in Gilead ~ in
stead Of balm in Gilead." 1t was
printed in 1868. The same text was
rendered in the Doual version (1609.)
Us there no rosin in Gilead 2" 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 to the
rhapsody and the philosophical drama.
Parallels, enigmas, proverbs, stories,
biographies, epistles, OratiOns and
prayers are all found in this library
OF the literary activities of the Isaeli-
fish race.
The first Bible printed from movable
metal type was issued by Gutenberg
at Mainz in 1450. 1t is somtimes call
ed the ''Mazarin Bible" because the
copy that first attracted the attention
of photographers was found some
three hundred 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
Semitic dialect spoken by the people
north of Canaan when the Israelites
took that country.
From the days of the Babylonion
exile Aramiac was used as the medi-
UNI of communication between the
Jews and other semitic people and
gradually supplanted Hebrew even in
Palestine, where it became the COM
mon language about B. G. 200.
The period in which the Old Tesla
ment was being written covers one
thousand years, while the period of
the composition of the New Testament
covers about 100 years. The Oldest
poems in the Old Testament date back
to about the year B. G. 1900, while
some of the Psalms and the Book of
Daniel are placed at the year B. G. 200.
The earliest part of the New Tesla
ment was written about the year a.
ID. 80 and the latest part about "A. I'D.
$50.
The original languages of the Bible
are Hebrew, Aramaic and Hellenistic
Greek Hebrew il the Semitic dialect
of the inhabitants of Canaan, adopted
by the Israelites when they entered
that territory. 1t has no expressive
conjunctions or participles. This rem
ders it impossible to express in He
brew delicate shades of logical or
philosophical thought. However, its
idioms are most picturesque and paint
vivid mental pictures.
The word Bible is derived from the
Latin name Biblia, which was treated
as a singular, although it comes from
the Greek neuter plural, meaning "lit-
tlebooks." This Greek diminitive was
derived 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 i'm the So
called second episode of Clement
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