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EFFECTIVE BIBLE STUDY
 Some
Facts About The Bible
- Holy Bible: means "holy, or separate
book" ("holy" means "set apart" or
"separate;" "Bible" is derived from the Greek
word biblia, "books")
- The Bible contains 66 books
- In the Old Testament there are 39 books
- In the New Testament there are 27 books
- There were over 40 writers including kings and
peasants, doctors and fishermen, princes and herdsmen, poets and
labourers, rich and poor, educated and uneducated
- It was written over a period of 1600 years
- There are 2,930 characters in 1,551 places
- There is every imaginable literary form
(poetry, prose, etc.).
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