 | The Bible is the record of the revelation of God to man, through
prophets and Jesus Christ. |
| It is composed of 66 books written by about 40 persons |
| The Old Testament was first written in Hebrew language. |
| The first writer of the Bible was Moses. |
| The Bible gets its name from a Greek word Biblia which means,
"books". |
| The Bible is the first book |
| A few years after Christ, the books of the New Testament were
written by the Apostles and others in Greek. |
| The first written books of the New Testament were some letters of
St. Paul. |
| They were all written in scrolls made of Papyrus. |
| Manuscripts made in Papyrus are called "Codex". |
| The New Testament was written in Greek except the Gospel of St.
Mathew. |
| By the second AD, New Testament books were translated into Syriac. |
| Second translation was into Latin. |
| It was the fourteenth century that the complete English Bible was
made. |
| The Malayalam Bible is published by the Bible Society and that
translation is based on King James Version. |
| There are 66 books, 39 Old Testament and 27 New Testament. |
| In addition to this there are 7 books under the name Apocrypha
books. Apocrypha means books and also "hidden". The Jews did not approve these
books as scriptures. |
| Roman Catholic Church decided to add Apocrypha books with the Bible.
These books are also accepted by our Church as part of the Bible. |
| Books are recognized by the church are known as Canonical books. |
| Today we know that the teachings and commandments of Christ are
found in the Bible. So we consider the Bible as scriptures and respect it. |
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