1．圣经简介

Bible, also called the Holy Bible, the sacred book or Scriptures of Judaism and of Christianity. The Bible of Judaism and the Bible of Christianity are different, however, in some important ways. The Jewish Bible is the Hebrew Scriptures, 39 books originally written in Hebrew, except for a few sections in Aramaic. The Christian Bible is in two parts, the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament. The Old Testament is structured in two slightly different forms by the two principal divisions of Christendom. The version of the Old Testament used by Roman Catholics is the Bible of Judaism plus 7 other books and additions to books (see the accompanying table); some of the additional books were originally written in Greek, as was the New Testament. The version of the Old Testament used by Protestants is limited to the 39 books of the Jewish Bible. The other books and additions to books are called the Apocrypha by Protestants; they are generally referred to as deuterocanonical books by Roman Catholics.

The term Bible is derived through Latin from the Greek biblia, or “books,” the diminutive form of byblos, the word for “papyrus” or “paper,” which was exported from the ancient Phoenician port city of Biblos. By the time of the Middle Ages the books of the Bible were considered a unified entity.

2．圣经目录

圣经目录

3．如何阅读圣经

重要典籍如圣经者，其理解当然是仁者见仁，智者见智！但是阅读理解圣经，基本上还是可以从以下三个方面来了解，即圣经作为历史文本，Bible as history作为文学作品, Bible as literature,以及作为宗教文本，Bible as religion.

圣经的学习过程中可以分为四个部分，分别是：

文字是事之所载
寓意是信之所赖
伦理是行之所依
末世是心之所望