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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Just wondering if the bible qualified as a book when it was all parchments and scrolls.
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The word bible actually originated from the Greek word
byblos, "Egyptian papyrus." From which the
biblion, "paper, scroll" was derived. "This is perhaps from Byblos, the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was exported to Greece." I would imagine the meaning of
biblios remained "paper, scrolls" until they were bound into books.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bible
The bible, itself, wasn't compiled (and canonized) until the fourth or fifth century. The Greek word for the scriptures pre-canonization of the Bible was
graphe, "scriptures." These were originally separate documents, not one book.