The English word "Bible" comes from "bíblia" in Latin and "bíblos" in Greek. The term means "book", or "books", and may have originated from the ancient Egyptian port of Byblos (in modern-day Lebanon), where papyrus used for making books and scrolls was exported to Greece.

The Bible is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

The Bible is comprised of 66 books and letters written by more than 40 authors during a period of approximately 1,500 years. Its original text was communicated in just 3 languages. The Old Testament was written for the most part in Hebrew, with a small percentage in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek.

Originally, the Holy Scriptures were written on scrolls of papyrus and later parchment, until the invention of the codex. A codex is a handwritten manuscript formatted like a modern book, with pages bound together at the spine within a hardcover.

The central theme of the Bible is God's plan of salvation - his way of providing deliverance from sin and spiritual death through repentance and faith.

With estimated total sales of over 5 billion copies (as for 2017), the Bible is widely considered to be the best-selling book of all time.

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