Bible

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The Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. It is a collection of scriptures written at different times by different authors in different locations. Jews and Christians consider the books of the Bible to be a product of divine inspiration or an authoritative record of the relationship between God and humans.

There is no single canonical "Bible"; many Bibles have evolved, with overlapping and diverging contents. The Christian Old Testament overlaps with the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint; the Hebrew Bible is known in Judaism as the Tanakh. The New Testament is a collection of writings by early Christians, consisting of narratives, letters and apocalyptic writings. Among Christian denominations there is some disagreement about the contents of the canon, primarily in the Apocrypha, a list of works that are regarded with varying levels of respect.

The translations of the Bible represented here are in order of oldest to newest and divided between the Jewish translations of the Tanakh and the Christian translations including both the Old and New Testament. The first five books of the Tanakh as also known as the Pentateuch. The first four books of the New Testament are also known as the Gospels.

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English-language translations of The Bible include:
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Hebrew Bibles

Christian Bibles

Individual works

Old Testament

New Testament

Deuterocanon/Apocrypha


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