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The set of canonical or foundational books of the Judaic and Christian religions is known as the Bible. For believers, the Bible is the word of God. This term comes from the Greek and is the plural of papyrus, scroll or book, constituting a set of books or volumes.

Today, the Bible is known to be the most widely read (and best-selling) book in all of history, and it has been translated into more than 2,000 languages. It is known on five continents and is considered, with good reason, the "book of books."

The Bible is then divided into books or groups of scriptures. To cite one example, the book of Psalms, made up of 150 sentences. There are different "versions" of the Bible. While the Hebrew or Tanach is divided into three sections (the books of Moses, the books of the Hebrew prophets and other books known as the Scriptures), the Christian recognizes the Hebrew as Old Will and distinguishes it from its New Testament, which narrates the life of Jesus. This New Testament is divided into 4 Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Letters (of the apostles Peter, Paul, James and John) and the Apocalypse,

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In numbers, the Bible has 1,189 chapters, of which 929 belong to the Old Testament and 260 to the New.

In general, when speaking of the Bible, reference is made to the Christian Bible, but for the different groups of the faithful this differs, and even There are also differences with respect to the texts considered apocryphal, that is, texts that are false or not considered authentic by the Church Catholic The definition of the books included in the Bible was formulated in the early days of Christianity, with strong influence of Saint Jerome, who translated the texts of the Old Testament (written in their entirety in ancient Hebrew) and the New Testament (all written in Greek in their original version, with the exception of the Gospel of Saint Matthew, written in Aramaic) to the most widespread language of that time, that is, Latin. The version of that time is called Vulgate and it is the foundation of the translations into all the languages ​​of the Earth that occurred in subsequent centuries. There are variations in translation and commentary among the various Christian creeds of the present, although the homology between the texts of the different branches are usually relatively similar to each other.

It is interesting to note that the book known as "Gutenberg's Bible" was one of the most famous works printed with the movable type system attributed to the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. This work gave rise to what would become known as the “Age of the Printing Press”, which he put to the scope of the popular masses volumes of all kinds, for example, like this document religious.

It is worth noting that the biblical texts constitute, in addition, the universal foundation of numerous laws of the first Christian nations, especially in the states that emerged from the disappearance of the feudal system in the Middle Ages European. On the other hand, the contents of the Bible are an integral part of the liturgy of Hebrews and Christians, in its different variants. For believers, there is an old aphorism that states that "prayer is the voice of man so that God listen, while the Scriptures (that is, the Bible) is the voice of God for man to I listened".

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