Seals and The Bible Part 3
Stamp Seals A stamp seal, as the name implies, is a seal used as a stamp. The size was usually about 1 cm in diameter. The seal was sometimes inserted…
Seals and The Bible Part 2
Cylinder SealsThe seal on the picture to the right is a typical cylinder seal. Such seals were often 2–4 cm tall and could be made of stone, ivory, glass, amethyst…
Seals and The Bible Part 1
Seals are mentioned several times in the Bible, for instance in 1 Kings 21:8: “So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to…
What does the word Bible mean?
The word Bible comes via Latin from the Greek word biblia, which means “small books”. This is again derived from the word biblos, a word that describes the papyrus plant’s…
What language is the Bible originally written in?
The part of the Bible (the Old Testament) that is from the first century was written in Hebrew and some Aramaic. All text in the New Testament was written in…
How long does it take to read the Bible?
A regular Norwegian bible has about 1400 pages and consists of about 3 million letters. To read it “quietly” takes about 50 hours, while it takes about 80 hours to…
How many pages are there in a Bible?
A regular Norwegian bible has about 1400 pages, depending on the font size and book format. It has 1189 chapters, 31.173 verses, approximately 740.000 words and about 3 million letters.A…
How many books does the Bible consist of?
A regular Norwegian Bible consists of 66 books. Where 39 is in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.Catholic Bibles consist of 73 books, as they also contain…
Erasmus and his Greek New Testament
The Nordic Bible Museum's collection includes one of history’s most influential editions of the Bible - the first printed New Testament (NT) in Greek, from 1516. Novum Instrumentum Omne, as was…
