how many bibles exist?

Answer 1

In terms of the various religious texts taken from ancient writings, there are currently only 6. However, in terms of the variations of interpretations there are millions. The Christian bible is the same as the Catholic essentially, with the interpretation being the only real difference. In fact the Christians are in some ways closer to the Jewish in faith due to the use of the old testament, the first four books of which are the Torah in the Hebrew faith. All religions are based upon ancient ritual and rites. This can be seen in the use of the word "Amun." Which has been converted over time to it's now often used form "Amen." An ancient Egyptian word meaning "all praises to." used as with "Amun Ra." All variations on a single theme, too bad so many have had to die over it.

Answer 2

One

"History of the Bible"

Bible the sacred book of Christianity, as the inspired record of God’s revelation of himself and of his will to mankind. It is a collection of ancient writings including the books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament, used by the Christian church.

It can also be the Hebrew Scriptures, the sacred book of Judaism, or a book or collection of writings constituting the sacred text of a religion [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin biblia, from Greek, pl. of biblion, book, diminutive of biblos, papyrus, book, from Bublos, Byblos.]. The words biblion and biblia are used in the OT (LXX) and the Apocrypha for the Scriptures (Dan. 9:2 "books"; 1 Macc. 1:56; 3:48; 12:9). By the fifth century A.D. the Greek church fathers applied the term biblia to the whole Christian Scriptures. Later the word passed into the western church, for its use in the Latin, thus "The Books" became "The Book."

The names "Old Testament" and "New Testament" have been used since the close of the second century A.D. to distinguish the Jewish (God’s covenant with Israel) and Christian (God’s new covenant people) Scriptures. Testament was a translation of the Hebrew word berith ("a covenant") to render the Greek word diatheke (Latin testamentum) first occurring in Tertullian (A.D. 190-220).

All used in Judea as the three main lines of transmission
by which the OT has come down to us are:
Masoretic Hebrew text of the eighth and ninth century A.D. is probably the most trustworthy. The Masoretic text may have been derived from a Babylonian revision.
Greek Septuagint, (LXX) which may have been derived from an Egyptian Hebrew revision.
Samaritan Pentateuch, which may have been derived from a Palestinian text.

Answer 3

Different groups keep writing different versions of the Bible to fit their point of view. I use the King James Version 1611 (year)

Answer 4

billions and billions it is the most purchased book. if you mean how many translation I do not know but it must be in over a 100 languages so I would say 3 or 400 easily.

Answer 5

There are just one bible but there are some versions of it...
Like King James, New American Standard or NIV

Answer 6

way too many if you ask me which just proves my point that the bible and all other religious books were written by man for their own personal agendas

Answer 7

A lot. The bible is always the top selling book every year.

Answer 8

there is one Bible, many translations - we have text from it dating back to 150AD over 5000 copies that are about that old -

Answer 9

Billions, perhaps many billions. There's no way of knowing.

Answer 10

over a 1,000 because people try to re-write the bible and put in their own words. and they use for their own religion.