I know how we got the books of the bible but who divided each book into verses.
Also are the verse divisions the same from bible to bible? I know the book divisions aren’t so…
try http://www.fuller.edu/ministry/berean/chs_vss.htm
[note: I fixed the link. -manhattan]
[Edited by manhattan on 12-31-2000 at 12:20 AM]
According to the Britannica, Robert Estienne (also known as Stephanus), a French printer of the 16th Century, is credited with the modern division of the New Testament into verses, in a 1551 edition. The Old Testament verses seem to go back to the Masoretic text.
Although the Britannica doesn’t mention it in its article on him, Stephen Langton (d. July 9, 1228), the English cardinal whose appointment as archbishop of Canterbury helped bring on the crisis which led to the issuing of the Magna Carta, is credited by the Catholic Encyclopedia with introducing the chapters.
The Geneva Bible of 1560 seems to have been the first edition printed with the entire Bible divided into chapters and verses.