THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD: BIBLE

I'm reading Robert Garlands new history of Ancient Greece and it's full of interesting facts.

 

The Greeks used papyrus for writing.  It's a plant that grows in the swamps of lower Egypt and the Egyptians had been using it 3,000 years BCE.

 

The Greeks, however, did not call the plant by its Egyptian name.  They called it Byblos and from that came the word Bible.

 

See?  You learn something new every day.