The Bible is too huge to summarize in any detail, but here is a very abbreviated review of its contents: These books were primarily written in Biblical Hebrew with some small portions in Biblical Aramaic, at various dates between about the 9th Century and 4th Century BCE.Ĭhristianity also includes a “New Testament”, a further 27 books which relate the life and teachings of Jesus and his disciples, written in Koine Greek in the 1st to 2nd Century CE. Judaism generally recognizes a set of 24 canonical books known as the “Tanakh” or “Hebrew Bible”, which also essentially makes up the “Old Testament” of the Christian “Bible”. It is probably the most quoted and the most widely distributed book in history, and many of the greatest writers in literature have been influenced by Biblical themes, motifs and images in one form or another. “The Bible” is a compilation of various texts or “books” of different ages which together make up the central religious text of both Judaism and Christianity. Introduction | Synopsis | Analysis | Resources Introduction 9th Century BCE – 2nd Century CE, 31,101 verses) (Religious text, anonymous, Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek, c. Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8).Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5). Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2).
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