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Bible stands for Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

Although funny, the line above is not entirely correct. Bible comes from the Greek 'biblia' - meaning 'books'. The Bible is a collection of 66 books.

Gubla (present-day Jbeil in Lebanon) is a Phoenician town noted for its abundant papyrus. Before paper was derived from trees ancients used fiber from the stem of the papyrus plant upon which to write messages and documents. They rolled them up into safekeeping and handled these delicately due to their tendency to become brittle over time. Unlike wood and stone, which the ancients used for inscriptions, papyrus was lighter, easier to transport and certainly easier to use and keep. In 1200 B.C. the Greeks renamed the city Byblos from their word for book which by this time was made of papyrus. Since books were made from pages of papyrus and Gubla was the known world's center, they called the town Byblos. Later, Romans translated the-word for book (byblos) into the Latin Biblia, and it is this word from which the English word "Bible" was derived.

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