What is the origin of the name "the bible"?

Question

why this sacred book is called like that? and who wrote it?

Answer 1

Main Entry: bi·ble
Pronunciation: 'bI-b&l
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin biblia, from Greek, plural of biblion book, diminutive of byblos papyrus, book, from Byblos, ancient Phoenician city from which papyrus was exported
1 capitalized a : the sacred scriptures of Christians comprising the Old Testament and the New Testament b : the sacred scriptures of some other religion (as Judaism)
2 obsolete : BOOK
3 capitalized : a copy or an edition of the Bible
4 : a publication that is preeminent especially in authoritativeness or wide readership

The Bible was written:

over a 1500 year span (from 1400 B.C to A.D. 100)
over 40 generations
over 40 authors from many walks of life (i.e. - kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars)
in different places (i.e. - wilderness, dungeon, palaces)
at different times (i.e. - war, peace)
in different moods (i.e. - heights of joy, depths of despair)
on three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe)
in three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek)

Answer 2

It's called after a city in Asia minor, Byblos, a centre for paper making. Originally the word referred to all books, or scrolls, made from paper.
Most theologians believe nowadays that the Old Testament is a compendium of scriptures that are relevant to the Jewish faith, written down by several people and over a long period of time.
Not all scriptures were taken into the "canon" (approved writings), there are so called "apocrypha", texts that were left out for one reason or the other. The Catholic Bible contains more books than the Protestant one, since Luther left out some of the books because he thought them irrelevant to the Gospel, and they were traditted in Greek, not in Hebrew.
I can only think of Tobit and Esther at the moment, but I'm sure there are more.

Answer 3

The word “Biblios” was originally Phoenician, it then passed into Greek, and later into Latin. As stated is means ‘books’ in Greek, and it is found on the cover of most books containing the Word of God. It is also the name of a Phoenician port city, which exported ‘papyrus,’ eventually, “Scrolls,” or what we call today, “books” came to be called by the name of this port city.

Answer 4

The word library..It is a composition of 66 books that make up one single book...
bibliotheca
Do a google search on that word..
Moses wrote the first 6 books of the Bible and other prophets of God wrote the rest as God instructed them.. The New Testament by the Apostles..

Answer 5

"Biblos" was an ancient city in Phoenicia (Currently, Lebanon) where papyrus was a major contributor to the economy.
The translation of "Biblos" is simply, "books."
The original manuscripts for the Bible were written out primarily on papyrus, as most of the ancients used.

Bible:
66 books
40 writers
1 author (God)

Answer 6

When the bishops of the Catholic Church gathered in Council to discern which of many writings would be included in the book they were compiling, they conversed in the common language of educated men of the time, Greek, because they were of many different nationalities. They referred to the book they were compiling simply as "the book" - "biblios" in Greek. The english "Bible" is derived from that Greek noun.

Answer 7

the word bible is from Anglo-Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin, as used in the phrase biblia sacra ("holy books"). This then stemmed from the term (Greek: τὰ βιβλία τὰ ἅγια Ta biblia ta hagia, "the holy books"), which derived from biblion ("paper" or "scroll,” the ordinary word for "book"), which was originally a diminutive of byblos ("Egyptian papyrus"), possibly so called from the name of the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece.

As for who wrote it... lots of people, over lots of time.

Answer 8

likely it came from the Latin word "biblios" meaning book. "Bible", being the English name of it, uses the latinate word "Bible", as it was considered "the Book".

it translates into different names in different languages. that's just what we call it in English

66 books written by approximately 40 authors over the span of 1600 years.

Answer 9

Actually it is the very first word in the Greek New Testament.... "Biblos", literally meaning "account", so in context in Matthew 1:1 it means "An account of Jesus Christ...". You can also translate it "record" or "history".

So "Holy Bible" means "Holy Account", etc.

Answer 10

Greek word meaning "books" in the plural.