The Interconfessional Translation of the Bible

Japanese: 《共同訳聖書》 - きょうどうやくせいしょ
The Interconfessional Translation of the Bible

...The holy book of Judaism and Christianity. The name of the Bible in Western languages, such as the English Bible, originates from the Greek word biblia. This word comes from the diminutive biblion (biblia is plural) of biblos, which refers to the inner bark of the papyrus stem, the raw material for paper. It was a common noun meaning a pamphlet or part of a book, but it became a proper noun in the Christian church, and from around the 5th century, the whole Bible came to be called biblia. Unlike a book of divine revelation through a single person, such as the Islamic holy book the Koran, the Bible contains a variety of documents that were written by many people over the long history of the ancient Israelites and early Christianity.

*Some of the terminology used in the "Common Translation of the Bible" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ユダヤ教,キリスト教の聖典。英語のバイブルBibleなど,西欧語での聖書の呼称はギリシア語のビブリアbibliaに始まる。この語は紙の原料となるパピルスの茎の内皮を指すビブロスbiblosの指小辞ビブリオンbiblion(ビブリアは複数形)に由来し,小冊子や書物の一部という普通名詞であったが,キリスト教会において固有名詞化し,5世紀ごろから聖書全体がビブリアと呼ばれるようになった。聖書はイスラムの聖典コーランのような一人物を通しての天啓の書物とは異なって,古代イスラエル民族と原始キリスト教の長い歴史の流れの中で多くの人々の手になった多様な文書を収めている。…

※「《共同訳聖書》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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