{"id":11,"date":"2015-08-16T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lightforisrael.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:22:08","slug":"bible-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lightforisrael.org\/index.php\/digital-scriptorium\/bible-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Terms: &#8220;Tanakh,&#8221; refers to the Old Testament, and &#8220;Bible&#8221;\u00a0refers to the sixty-six books of the complete Jewish-Protestant canon.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div id=\"block-system-main\" class=\"block block-system\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"ds-1col node node-article node-promoted node-full view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Bible was written by around forty different people from different backgrounds, from kings, prophets, and writers to fishermen, shepherds, and prisoners.<\/li>\n<li>The Bible was written during a period of 1,600 years. That&#8217;s about forty generations.<\/li>\n<li>The first division into chapters was made in 1238.<\/li>\n<li>The first division into verses was made in 1448 (Tanakh) and 1551 (NT). The first full Bible divided into chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible, printed in 1560.<\/li>\n<li>The Bible was the first book ever printed in 1456.<\/li>\n<li>The Bible is the most sold and most translated book in the world . . . and the most shoplifted.<\/li>\n<li>The Bible, or parts of it, is available in 2,508 different languages (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblesocietyinisrael.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=27&amp;lang=en#figures\">UBS figures of December 31, 2009<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Every minute about fifty Bibles are sold.<\/li>\n<li>The smallest printed Bible in the world is 4 cm long, 3 cm wide and 2 cm thick. It has 878 pages and was printed in England. It must be read with a magnifying glass. It weighs 20 grams.<\/li>\n<li>The smallest Bible ever can only be read with a microscope and was reduced by PCMI-technology which can shrink it to a scale of 1:48000. This means that an entire Bible in English, some 1,245 pages, was fit on a page that is 3 x 3.5 cm. The physical space the zeroes and ones of a full Bible in digital format takes up can fit on a human hair.<\/li>\n<li>The largest Bible in the world is 547 kilos and is 2.5 meters thick. It was created by a carpenter in Los Angeles who decided to cut out the entire Bible in wood. He worked on it for two years.<\/li>\n<li>The oldest preserved Bible is Codex Vaticanus, written before the year 350 AD. It is preserved in the Vatican Museum in Rome.<\/li>\n<li>The oldest preserved fragment of a Bible text is 2,600 years old. You can read more about it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblesocietyinisrael.com\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=flypage.tpl&amp;product_id=26&amp;category_id=8&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=3&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Orthodox and Catholic Christians\u00a0include a number of additional books in their Old Testament (commonly referred to as the Apocrypha or Deutrocanon) and some additional material in books accepted by Protestants (Daniel and Esther)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bible has 1,189 chapters (1,334 including the Deutrocanon). If you read four chapters a day, you will finish within 298 (or 334) days.<\/li>\n<li>It takes around eighty hours to read the entire Hebrew Bible.<\/li>\n<li>The longest book in the Bible is Psalms.<\/li>\n<li>The shortest book in the Tanakh is Obadiah with only twenty-one verses.<\/li>\n<li>The shortest book in the Bible is John 3 with 13 verses.<\/li>\n<li>The longest book in the New Testament is Luke. Matthew and Acts have more chapters than Luke, but Luke has the longest text.<\/li>\n<li>The Tanakh has 929 chapters and the New Testament has 260. The Catholic Old Testament, including the DC, has a total of 1,074 chapters.<\/li>\n<li>The book of Joel is divided into three chapters in the Latin Vulgate and the KJV, but four chapters in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint.<\/li>\n<li>The book of Malachi is divided into four chapters in the Latin Vulgate and the KJV but three chapters in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint.<\/li>\n<li>The shortest and the longest chapters in the Bible are both in Psalms, Psalm 117 and 119.<\/li>\n<li>The longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8:9. The shortest is John 11:35.<\/li>\n<li>The longest parashah in the Torah is parashat Naso; it has 176 verses, the same as the number of verses in Psalm 119. It goes from Numbers 4:21 &#8211; 7:89. This parashah includes the priestly blessing in Numbers 6:22-27, which also appears on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblesocietyinisrael.com\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=flypage.tpl&amp;product_id=26&amp;category_id=8&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=3&amp;lang=en\">oldest preserved fragment of a biblical text.<\/a>\u00a0This parashah is always read in the synagogues on the Shabbat that is closest to the feast of Shavuot (Pentecost).<\/li>\n<li>The New Testament has twenty-seven books. The Tanakh has twenty-four books according to the Jewish tradition, and thirty-nine according to the Protestant Christian. The difference is only in the division of books; the amount of actual text is the same. The Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament has additional books.<\/li>\n<li>The total number of verses in the Bible is around 31.000. The exact number differs depending on translation, sources, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Terms: &#8220;Tanakh,&#8221; refers to the Old Testament, and &#8220;Bible&#8221;\u00a0refers to the sixty-six books of the complete Jewish-Protestant canon.) The Bible was written by around forty different people from different backgrounds, from kings, prophets, and writers to fishermen, shepherds, and prisoners. The Bible was written during a period of 1,600 years. That&#8217;s about forty generations. 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