The Hebrew word for salvation, yeshuah, shares its root with the name Joshua and with the name Jesus.
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The Bible's chapter and verse numbers came later, so its earliest readers couldn't look up a passage by today's familiar address.
Luke names women who supported Jesus and his disciples with their resources, placing financial help alongside the work of following and teaching.
Numbers calls an enduring promise a covenant of salt, giving a table ingredient a place in the Bible's language of lasting agreements.
To bless originally meant to consecrate with blood; a blessing later came to mean any gift of divine favor.
Isaiah calls the Persian ruler Cyrus God's shepherd, applying a pastoral title to a foreign king rather than an Israelite tending sheep.
The prophet Amos describes himself as a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs, not a professional prophet by trade.
Gospel comes from the Old English god-spell, meaning good news, itself a translation of the Greek word euangelion.
The name Jesus is a Greek form of the Hebrew Yeshua, meaning the Lord saves, a common name in first-century Galilee.
The Hebrew version of Esther never names God, despite belonging to the Bible; Greek versions add passages that mention divine help.
True stories · Mount Sinai, Egypt
The library with hidden writing
At the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt sits Saint Catherine's Monastery, home to an ancient manuscript library. The monastery dates to the sixth century. Its monks guard thousands of handwritten manuscripts behind fortress walls in the desert. Among its treasures was the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the earliest near-complete copies of the Christian Bible, written by hand around the year 350. In recent years scholars have used special photography to reveal faded writing hidden under newer ink, recovering lost languages and texts that monks had quietly preserved for fifteen centuries.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine of Hippo
Trivia
How many books make up the Protestant Bible, divided between the Old and New Testaments?
Sixty-six: thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New.
Which verse in the King James Bible is just two words long: Jesus followed by what?
Wept (John 11:35).
What biblical collection contains 150 songs and prayers in its familiar mainstream form?
The Book of Psalms.
In what language was most of the New Testament originally written?
Koine Greek.
Whose 1455 printed Bible was the first major book made with movable type in Europe?
Johannes Gutenberg.
True stories · Qumran, West Bank
The shepherd and the scrolls
In 1947, according to the familiar discovery account, a young Bedouin shepherd near Qumran, by the Dead Sea, threw a stone into a cave while looking for a lost goat. Instead of a bleat he heard pottery shatter. Inside the cave he found clay jars holding ancient scrolls wrapped in linen. They turned out to be the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of the oldest surviving manuscripts of Hebrew scripture, hidden away roughly two thousand years earlier. One nearly complete scroll of the book of Isaiah allowed scholars to compare an ancient version with later copies, finding both continuity and differences. The chance find became one of the greatest discoveries of the last hundred years.
There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still.
Betsie ten Boom, recalled by Corrie ten Boom
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Sources: Codex Sinaiticus, St. Catherine's Monastery · Dead Sea Scrolls, discovery and publication · Augustine quote (PassItOn / Lapham's) · Corrie ten Boom quote (Christian History Institute)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
