The bible is a large book, with many contributions.
Yeah, the bible is a huge part of history, do you know anything else about it?
The New Testament was written mostly by Jewish disciples of Jesus.
Huh, fascinating. What about the Old Testament?
The Old Testament has parts of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint.
Oh wow, I wonder how many languages the bible has been translated into?
and the Christian Old Testament. The Christian New Testament is a collection of writings by early Christians, believed to be mostly Jewish disciples of Christ, written in first-century Koine Greek. Among Christian denominations there is some disagreement about what should be included in the canon, primarily about the Apocrypha, a list of works that are regarded with varying levels of respect.
Attitudes towards the Bible also differ among Christian groups. Roman Catholics, high church Anglicans, Methodists and Eastern Orthodox Christians stress the harmony and importance of the
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The Hebrew Bible (i.e. the Jewish "Tanakh" or Christian Old Testament) is almost entirely in Classical (or Biblical) Hebrew. However, there are some significant sections in Biblical Aramaic: about a third of the Book of Daniel and several quoted royal letters and edicts in the Book of Ezra. These are written in the same square-script as the Hebrew parts, and many readers of the Bible in Hebrew do not require translation for them. Nevertheless, numerous Hebrew translations and paraphrases for these Aramaic parts