The Bible is the sacred book of the Christian Church. The familiar English word comes from the Greek through the Latin .. The Greek original, Biblia, meant simply 'the books', and when the word was transliterated into Latin it came to be a singular feminine noun. Two collections of books are embraced within the Bible - those of the Old Testament, which were formed into the Canon of scripture within the Jewish Church and subsequently came to be received within the Christian Church also, and those of the New Testament., which were written within the Christian Church and therein were accepted as sacred scripture along with the earlier collection..
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