I'm used to writing being in paragraphs and stuff. Is the poem? If so, in the original languages does it rhyme?
2006-10-12 14:49:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For those of you who insist on knowing, I submitted this questions twice by accident because my web browser was misbehaving.
2006-10-12 14:56:34 · update #1
In the Psalms, and in some selected portions of other books, they are written as "poetry". But "poetry" does not always mean rhyming of last words of lines. Hebrew poetry, such as the Psalms, rhyme ty repeating ideas with slight variations in words, etc., etc.
In a few "special" instances, divisions (or verses) are based on the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
As for the "verses" in the Bible ...
Chapters and Verses -- Late Comers
http://www.fuller.edu/ministry/berean/chs_vss.htm
... With the passage of time, ..., the need arose in connection with biblical texts to delimit the sections that were about the size of large paragraphs, both because of the necessity to be able readily to locate a passage in the text and because of the desirability to have units of this magnitude stand out clearly. Thus in the Old Testament, even as far back as the time of Qumran, the text was divided into sections called parashoth. ...
In other words, originally no chapter nor verse indications; but as more people began to read the Scriptures, the greater necessity for ease of finding the "chapter and verse".
The text of the Original is what is inspired; the chapters and verses are NOT part of the original and sometimes are not even the greatest.
It was Robert Stephanus, a Parisian book printer, whose versification of the Bible has prevailed to the present. He took over the verse divisions already indicated in the Hebrew Bible by the soph pasuq and assigned numbers to them within the chapter divisions already assigned by Stephan Langton. While riding on horseback from Paris to Lyons he affixed his own verse divisions to the New Testament and numbered them within Langton's chapter divisions. Consequently the quality of his work was not the best. Von Soden complained,
The verse divisions of Stephanus which he, according to an incidental remark by his son, made during a trip from Paris to Lyons, frequently do not do service to the sense of the text. There is no consistent method at work in this system. The verses sometimes coincide with a single sentence, and sometimes they include several sentences; sometimes a single sentence is divided into two verses, with the result that the reader is led to consider the second verse while forgetting the point of view of the first verse. Especially objectionable is the way in which words introducing a direct quotation sometimes belong to the preceding verse and sometimes to the verse in which the quotation is found.3
2006-10-12 15:08:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The original text didn't contain verses, or chapters or even vowels, it was written on a scroll that you had to unroll from top to bottom as you read it, the rest was added to make the reading easier.
2006-10-12 14:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by JaimeM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original scripture and manuscript was not written in verses, thats a church introduced thing to help find passages and verses easier and make the bible more navigable.
2006-10-12 14:53:28 · answer #3 · answered by iamwhoiam 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not written in verses. But for easy reference, the books are divided into chapters and verses.
Some of the books are poetic and they would be written like poems or songs (Psalms, Proverbs).
2006-10-12 14:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Again??? It was not WRITTEN that way, they were added. NOT ALL ARE THE SAME. YOUR ANSWER MAY VARY.
There are a few points where the language is driven by sound, but most Biblical "poetry" does not rhyme like something you usually see in English...
2006-10-12 14:51:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who translated the Bible separated it into verses to make it easier to reference (find certain parts). It's not meant to rhyme.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!
2006-10-12 14:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by ACC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the Old Testament is origially written in poetic hebrew. Verse addresses were added later.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Romans 10:9-10
2006-10-12 14:54:49 · answer #7 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Originally it wasn't. In the middle ages verses were added to help memorizing.
2006-10-12 14:52:49 · answer #8 · answered by Isolde 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bible was passed down in the oral tradition before writing was invented and yes, it is a collection of epic poems.
2006-10-12 15:11:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the bible was not originally seperated into chapters and verses.We seperated them into chapters and verses for easy reference.
2006-10-12 15:24:17 · answer #10 · answered by Demon slayer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋