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::BTW, the word was ''never'' Byblos -- that was the name of a Phonoecian city that produced papyri, biblos was then derived from the town name with an iota replacing the upsilon. [[User:NousEpirrhytos|NousEpirrhytos]] 08:29, 7 April 2007 (EDT)
::BTW, the word was ''never'' Byblos -- that was the name of a Phonoecian city that produced papyri, biblos was then derived from the town name with an iota replacing the upsilon. [[User:NousEpirrhytos|NousEpirrhytos]] 08:29, 7 April 2007 (EDT)
:::I just noticed this: ''...Greek Christians had called the Scriptures la Biblia...'' -- la is '''not''' a definite article in Greek, it only accurs in Romance languages as a shortening of the demonstative article ''illa''. [[User:NousEpirrhytos|NousEpirrhytos]] 16:43, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
:::I just noticed this: ''...Greek Christians had called the Scriptures la Biblia...'' -- la is '''not''' a definite article in Greek, it only accurs in Romance languages as a shortening of the demonstative article ''illa''. [[User:NousEpirrhytos|NousEpirrhytos]] 16:43, 8 April 2007 (EDT)
Absolutely. Hence my original remark. --[[User:Petrus|Petrus]] 05:15, 9 April 2007 (EDT)