Bibionidæ (bibionide)

pl. [NL., Biberon.- Oiron faïence (France), in South Kensington Museum, London. (From "L'Art pour Tous.") bibiru (bi-bēʼrö), n. See bebeeru. bibitory (bib'i-to-ri), a. [NL. bib it or i us, = βιβλίον, often spelled ẞv s, a book, biblia, the books, biblia (usually biblia sacra) (prop. neut. pl., but in ML. taken also as fem. sing.), ἅγια , i. e., biblia sacra , the holy books), pl. of βιβλί βλίον, a little book, a book as a division of a large work, dim. of βίβλος , also βύβλος , writing, scroll, lit. paper, same as βύβλος, the Egyptian papyrus, of the inner bark of which paper was made. Cf. L. liber , a book, liber , the inner bark of a tree; E. book , bōc , a book, as related to bōc , a beech-tree; and cf. paper. The orig. sense of LL. biblia , the books, is made prominent in ML. bibliotheca , the Bi- ble, lit. a library: see bibliotheca .] 1. The Book, or rather the Books (see etym.), by way of eminence; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. The word bible is not found in the English version, but the Greek word occurs frequently, dicating the books of the Old Testament. The Bible con- sists of two parts: the Old Testament, written in Hebrew, containing the Law, the Prophets, and the sacred writings, or Hagiographa; and the New Testament, written in Greek, consisting of the four Gospels, the Book of Acts, the Epistles of Paul and other apostolic writers, and the Apoc. alypse or Book of Revelation, the only strictly prophetic book which it contains. Roman Catholic writers accept, in addition to these, most of the books contained in the Apocrypha of the King James version, which occur in the Septuagint (see below) and Vulgate, distributed among the other books of the Old Testament. The principal ancient versions of the Bible, or of portions of it, are the Targums, a Chaldee or Aramaic paraphrase or interpretation of the more ancient Hebrew Scriptures; the Samar it an Pent a teuch, a Hebrew version of the first five books of the Old Testament, ancient in its character, and preserved with jealous care among the Samaritans; the Sep tuagint, a Greek version of the Old Testament prepared by Jewish scholars at Alexandria under the Ptolemies, principally in the third century B. C.; the Vulgate, a Latin version of both Old Testament and New Testament, pre pared by Jerome at the close of the fourth century A. D.; ized or King James, prepared by a special commi ion of scholars in England under James I., 1604-11; the Douay, a popular name given to a translation into English prepared by Roman Catholic divines - the Old Testament at Douay (1609-10), the New Testament at Reims (1582); and the Revised, a recension of the King James Bible prepared by a committee of British and American Protestant divines, the New Testament appearing in 1881, and the Old Testament in 1885. The number of minor versions is indicated by the fact that, since 1804, translations of the Bible or portions of it have been published in upward of 225 languages. Roman Catholics and Protestants differ in the degree of authority which they attach to the Bible. The Roman Catholic Church "receives with piety and reverence all the books of the Old and New Testaments, since one God is the Author of each" (Council of Trent); but "at the same time it maintains that there is an unwritten word of God over and above Scripture" (Cath. Dict.). Protestants generally hold that "the Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, and private spirits are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in Scripture" (Westminster Conf. of Faith). Hence-2. Any book or collection of religious writings received by its adherents as a divine revelation: as, the Koran is the Bible of the Mohammedans; the Mormon Bible. 3t. [l. c.] Any great book. To tellen all wold pa en any bible, That owher [anywhere] is. Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's [Yeoman's Tale, 1. 354. bibliolatrous or to the sacred writings: as, biblical learning; biblical criticism.-2. In accord with the teachings of the Bible; scriptural. Hence-3. Authoritative; true. First and last, eloquence must still be at bottom a bibli cal statement of fact. Emerson, Eloquence. [Often written with a capital, as a proper adjective.] Biblical geography. See geography. - Biblical hermeneutics. See hermeneutics .=Syn. See scriptural . biblicality (bib-li-kali-ti), n. [ biblical + -ity .] 1. The quality of being biblical.-2. That which has the quality of being biblical. [Rare.] biblically (bibʻli-kal-i), adv. In a biblical manner; according to the Bible. Biblicism (bibli-sizm), n. [ IMG:content-2030.png:[graphic] Also Biblist .