Off topic, I went to Will Durant’s “The Story of Civilization” and learned where the Bible got its name.
On page 293-294 of Volume 1, Durant writes of the Semites:
At strategic points along the Mediterranean they established garrisons that grew in time into populous cities: at Cadiz, Carthage, and Marseilles, in Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, even in distant England. They occupied Cyprus, Melos and Rhodes. They took the arts and sciences of Egypt, Crete and the Near East and spread them in Greece, Africa, Italy and Spain. They bound together the East and the West in a commercial and cultural web, and began to redeem Europe from barbarism.
Nourished by this trade, and skillfully governed by mercantile aristocracies too clever in diplomacy and finance to waste their fortunes in war, the cities of Phoenicia rose to a place among the richest and most powerful in the world. Byblos thought itself the oldest of all cities; the god El had founded it at the beginning of time, and to the end of its history it remained the religious capital of Phoenicia. Because papyrus was one of the principle articles in its trade, the Greeks took the name of the city as their word for book –biblios – and from their word for books named our Bible – ta biblia.
What this means is that the first edition of the Bible predates Christ and the Gospels by up to about twelve centuries.
Good night, fellow travelers on Earth.
The translation of "El" means "the one", meaning of God. It was prominent in ancient Hebrew names for the seven Archangels; "Micha-el", Gabri-el", "Rapha-el", "Uri-el", "Sari-el", "Ragu-el", and "Remi-el". It is still used Arabic and Spanish in a cognate form. Interesting how so much pre-Judaism there in in the bible.