Michael Bromley
Created page with "The word "Bible" is from Latin ''biblia'' and Greek ''biblion''. While we today refer to it as "the Bible," since the word may have been a reference to Egyptian paper used for scrolls that was sold in the Phoenician city of Byblios (in modern Lebanon), the early Church referred to it in Latin and Greek as the "Holy Bible" -- Latin ''biblia sacra'' and Greek ''ta biblio to hagia'' (plural for "the holy books"'')''. The Old Testament is a collection of Hebrew sacred writi..."