Bible And Islam Chapter Summaries

This Chapter begins with the explanation of why the Bible has two different names, and where these names originated from. The Bible is often referred to as Scriptures, which came from the Latin word “scriptura”, and it can be also referred to as The Bible which comes from the Greek word “Biblion”. Many religions have sacred scriptures, but only Christians and Jews refer to their sacred scriptures as the Bible or the Hebrew Bible for Jewish people. Most people tend to use this term as it is seen as more religiously neutral. The Bible itself was not always a book. Before the printing press was invented many of the biblical stories were written on papyrus scrolls, which were marshland strips matted together. Animal skin that was cleaned and stitched

The Bible could be seen as a library because similar to a library, the Bible has books that were written by many different authors in very different times. The Bible is also organised like a library, it is organised by topic rather than the time it was written. The Bible may be seen as many books just put together, as each title, are a title of a book, not a chapter. For those who have not studied the bible, or are not well informed about it. They may just refer to the Bible as just one big book. It is true that the Bible has many similar physical features of a single book, for example the fact it has a front and back cover. People tend to get the impression that it is just one book from one author. Whereas if you properly investigate the Bible it will be clear that the Bible has a large variety of different styles of writings and different genres e.g. Historical works, Hymns,

The chapter title is “The Bible as Book and as Library”, I felt as though the chapter thoroughly explains why and how the Bible can be referred to as a library and a book. The origins of each name given to the Bible is explained. I found it quite interesting that the author did not just consider one Bible of one religion. They took into account the Jewish Scriptures, the Protestant bible, the Orthodox bible, and the Catholic bible. The author also talks about in quite some detail the structure of each Bible listed above. The author not only explained the similarities and the differences between each Bible and why those differences arose, but they also used a somewhat illustrational form of explaining each bible’s uniqueness. I found this help me completely understand the differences in each Bible’s structure. In each graph the author wrote out each book of the Old Testament and arranged them in the way each religion would group the Books. For example, the Orthodox Old Testament would group the Books in three collections; the historical books, the poetic and didactic books, and the prophetic books. Whereas the Catholic Old Testament would be also grouped in three collections, but with different names which are; the Pentateuch books, the historical and wisdom books, and the prophetic