Biblos.com: Search, Read, Study the Bible in Many Languages. In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000. The Bible has been called the best-selling book of all time, though the term itself comes from biblia, Greek for a collection of books. The Bible developed gradually, over many centuries, as the result of cultural interaction and exchange among many different societies. Over time, some texts were accepted as part of the canon of belief, while others were excluded as apocryphal and heretical. Out of this rich diversity and cultural complexity emerged the modern Bible. In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 tells the story of this formative period.
The exhibition brings together a rare assemblage of several important early Hebrew and Christian bibles—the first time many of these fragile treasures have been shown to the public. This exploration of the Bible's first thousand years also reveals the parallel development of the book—one of the world's great technological revolutions. Exciting finds included the Cairo Genizah, associated with the thousand-year-old Ben Ezra Synagogue. Bible Study Tools Online – Verses, Commentaries, Concordances, Verses, Parallel Versions. Enter the Bible. English Standard Version (ESV. BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 100 versions and 50 languages.