Show FACTS ACTS ABOUT T THE i I 1 BIBLE the king james bible contains 66 books fourteen apocryphal books of tho the bible are recorded the bible chapters number 1189 of which are in the old testament and in the new there are verses in the king james edition of the bible in the old and in the no now w testament there are words in the bible according to the figure of horne home a scotch student who spent three years counting them the total number of letters in the bible is computed by the same authority to be the first printed greek testaments were those of erasmus published at basel by croben in 1516 the first biblical illustrative art consisted in hi the symbolic frescoes of the catacombs Cata combs the earliest bible pictures were painted on the church walls instead of being bound between the book covers A bible printed in 1810 had a line of semi cockney dialect in matthew xiii 43 who bath ears to ear car let him hear hellenistic greek the language of the new tes testament cament is the simpli simplified fled dialect of attic greek used by the semitic people I as a result of the conque conquests sU of alexander the place makers bible is so called from a typographical error which makes matov 9 read blessed are the place makers instead of peace makers maker s the bub bible is so called because of oa its rendering of psalm xvi 5 afraid of bugs by night our present version A D 1551 reads terror by night |