Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bible" to "Bisectrix"

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bible" to "Bisectrix" - Volume 3, Slice 7

BIBLE. The word Bible, which in English, as in medieval Latin, is treated as a singular noun, is in its original Greek form a plural, , the (sacred) bookscorrectly expressing the fact that the sacred writings of Christendom (collectively described by this title) are made up of a number of independent records, which set before us the successive stages in the history of revelation. The origin of each of these records forms a distinct critical problem, and for the discussion of these questions of detail the reader is referred to the separate articles on the Biblical books. An account of the Bible as a whole involves so many aspects of interest, that, apart from the separate articles on its component books, the general questions of importance arising out of its present shape require to be discussed in separate sections of this article. They are here divided accordingly, into two main divisions:(A) Old Testament, and (B) New Testament; and under each of these are treated (1) the Canon, (2) the texts and versions, (3) textual criticism, (4) the higher criticism, i.e. a general historical account (more particularly considered for separate books in the articles on them) of the criticism and views based on the substance and matter, as apart from criticism devoted to the correction and elucidation of the text, and (5) chronology. For the literary history of the translated English Bible, see the separate article under Bible, English. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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