The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-16
FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE
Some Uncommon Information for
Students of the Good
Book.

| The King James Bible contains sixty
six books.
Fourteen apocryphal books of the Bible
are recorded.
The Bible chapters number 1,1SS of
which 1923 are in the Old Testament and
go in the New.
There are H,17s verses in the King
James edition of the Bible, 33.2l4 in the
Old and 1858 in the New Testament.
There are T4746 words in the Bible,
according to the figures OF Horne, a
| Scotch student. who spent three years
| counting them.
BILE is computed by the same authority
to be 1885, 4S0.
The first printed Greek Testaments were
those of Erasmus published at Basel by
Froben in 1915.
The first Biblical illustrative art con-
sisted 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.
A Bible printed in 1910 had line Of
semi COclzney dialect in Matthew xii: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 peo-
pie Henenized as a result of the conquests
of Alexander.
The "Place-makers' Bible" is so called
from q typographical error which makes
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Makers instead of ''peace-makers.'
The Bug Bible is so called because of
it's rendering of Psalm xci:5 Afraid Of
bugs by night" Our present version A.
ID. 155l) reads terror by night"
To celebrate the advance OF the printers
art. particularly its increase in speed, a
Caxton memorial Bible was wholly printed
and bound in twelve hours in 1871 Only
100 copies were struck off.
The Geneva version is some times called
Io
Of Genesis iii:7: Making themselves
Iation, done by the English exiles at
Geneva, was the English family Bible
during the reign of Elizabeth and was
supplanted by the version of King James
in 1861.
The Treacle Bible got its name from its
rendering of jeremiah viii:22: rs there
no treacle in Gilead,' instead of balm in
Gilead" 1t was printed in 1868 The
same text was rendered in the Douai YER
sion, 1909: 'Is there no rosn in Gilead?'
This Bible was called the Rosin Bible.
Almost every form of literature is rep
resented 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 &C
tivity of the Israelitish race.
The first Bible printed from movable
metal types was issued by Gutenberg at
Mainz in 1452. 1t is sometimes called the
"Mazarin Bible" because the copy that
first attracted the attention of bibliog-
raphers was found some three hundred
years later among the books of Cardinal
Mazarin 1t was discovered by Depure a
hundred 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 Babylonian exile, Aramaic was used
as the medium of communication be-
tween Jews and other Semitic people
and gradually suppianted Hebrew even
in Palestine, where 1t 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 COW
ers about one hundred years. The old
est poems in the Old Testament date
back to bout the year 3. G. 1900, while
some of the Psalms and Book of Daniel
are placed at the year 3. c. 200. The
earliest part of the New Testament
was written about the year A. d. SO
and the latest part about A ID. $50.
The original languages of the Bible
are Hebrew Aramaic and Hellenistic
Greek. Hebrew is 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 phil
osophical thought. However, It's idioms
are most picturesque and paint vivid
mental pictures.
The word Bible is derived from the
Latin name Biblia, which was treated
as singular, although ii comes from
the Greek neuter plural. meaning Tit
tie books. This Greek diminutive
was derived from byblus. or papyrus.
the famous material on which ancient
books wore written. The title Bible"
was first used about the middle of the
second Christian century in the So
called second epistle of Clement
(xiv ~.