The Bible – tips

The Bible was originally written in continuous, unbroken lines of letters.  Also “Neither of the original languages distinguished between upper and lower-case letters.{IBHG  preface}”  It was not until the ninth century C.E. that any system of dividing sentences by punctuation marks was devised.

The main features of our modern system of punctuation began in the fifteenth century C.E. as a result of the introduction of printing. Subdivision of the Bible into chapters and verses (the King James Version has 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses) was not done by the original writers either. This came centuries later. The Masoretes, Jewish scholars, divided the Hebrew Scriptures into verses. Then in the thirteenth century C.E. chapter divisions were added.

[So we can see it was up to the translator where they would put the punctuation marks and upper case letters, and if they had a certain belief most likely they would put the punctuation where they chooses to support their believe(s).

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