Bible
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BIBLE Gr.,=the books, term used since the 4th cent. to denote the Christian Scriptures...Christian Scriptures specifically, as well as the history of the translation of the Bible into English. For the composition and the canon of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, see Old Testament ; New Testament ; Apocrypha ; Pseudepigrapha . The...