De Bijbel

The Bible

De Bijbel

De Bijbel is the holy book of the Christians. The word 'Bible' dates from the Greek word βιβλία biblia (books), which is a plural of βιβλίον Biblion (book; originally the diminutive of βίβλος which means papyrus (plant) or book). This meaning goes back to the Phoenician city of Byblos, which was a cover for bark, the raw material for papyrus.

The word Bible has two meanings that are often used interchangeably. In the first place, it is the collection of writings that form De Bijbel (for example, in De Bijbel ", with a certain article and officially with capital letter), and in the second place a printed copy thereof (" I don't have my Bible with me ", officially without a capital letter). In Christianity, a printed specimen is usually not considered particularly sacred.

De Bijbel contains two different collections of texts:

- The Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible or Tenach. This was written about a period of many centuries, for the most part in Hebrew with a few passages in Aramaic.

- the New Testament, written during the first (and according to some partly in the second) century AD, in then everyday Greek (Koinè-Greek).

- For many Christians, the Deuterocanonical books also have meaning; See further on.

Composition of De Bijbel

De Bijbel was not created in one go, but has been put together in the course of thousands of years. The Old Testament is in fact the Hebrew Jewish Tenach. This includes 39 books. In addition, around 150 BC. A Greek translation of the Tenach, the so -called Septuagint, published, which included many more books, and of some books a more extensive version of what was stood in the Hebrew Tenach. The 39 books of the Tenach are accepted by all Christian churches as canonics. The lyrics that were in the Septuagint, but not in the Tenach, are considered apocryphal by most Protestant churches, while the Roman Catholic Church 13 of them has included the deuterocanonics ('later added to the Canon') in De Bijbel . In the article Canon of De Bijbel both the old and the New Testament contains an overview of which churches which books consider as canonics.

The New Testament is also a collection of books. Of these, athanasius of Alexandria in 367 AD. A list of 27 books drawn up that are considered canonical by almost all Christian churches. See canon formation of the New Testament for more about this.

It is often said that De Bijbel is inspired by God. What the "inspiration" entails, the opinions differ. Some believe that De Bijbel is not verbally "dictated" by God: wrote people, in their own terms and in their own style, and sometimes even in their own dialect, what they had understood from God, and sometimes heard literally, or in dreams. Others hold on to "inspiration" as a literal representation of the words entered by God, in which man, being purely 'instrument' of God, is no more than a passion and has not intervened in any way in that of God (given). The extent to which this nuance is accepted differs from church to church. In general, reformational and experimental Reformed churches will hold tighter to a literal revelation.

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