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  • Byblos, which was so-named as a result of the trade and manufacture of writing material based on the Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century A.D. Greek

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Byblos, which was so-named as a result of the trade and manufacture of writing material based on the Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century A.D. Greek

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Joder 2009

  • Byblos, which was so-named as a result of the trade and manufacture of writing material based on the Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century A.D. Greek

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Byblos, which was so-named as a result of the trade and manufacture of writing material based on the Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century A.D. Greek

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Byblos, which was so-named as a result of the trade and manufacture of writing material based on the Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century A.D. Greek

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [4] The word biblos or byblos, was afterwards almost appropriated to books written upon the paper of Egypt.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 Various

  • It was also called biblos by Homer and Herodotus, whence our term bible.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • The Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century AD, Greek

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Byblos, which was so-named as a result of the trade and manufacture of writing material based on the Greek word biblos was based upon this, and it came to be the word for book (a small book was termed biblion), and by the 2nd century A.D. Greek

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • It is derived from the Latin biblia, which came from the Greek biblos, meaning "book."

    Everyone's Blog Posts - A Virtuous Woman 2009

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