Historical facts about the Crystal Bible KJV

A pioneer in the field of nanotechnology has managed to numerize 3 million 400 thousand characters on 307 surfaces of 420 µms x 500 µms each, to create the first world's smallest edition of the entire original 1611 King James Version of the Holy Bible on a tiny crystal named : the Crystal-Bible.

Definitions:

The word «Bible» comes from the Greek word biblia which means papyrus rolls, volumes or books, or literally: brochures. The first Christian Greeks called the Scriptures « Ta Biblia », meaning «THE Books», the supreme books.

The word « testament » stems from the Greek word diathiki (testament, agreement) and translates into Latin as testamentum (testament, testimony). The Greek term has a broader meaning (agreement) than the Latin one, and some prefer to translate it as alliance. Originally, the Bible was not one book, but a series of books and brochures, during the constitution of its canon. The notion of the Bible as a unique book is a rather modern one, despite the fact that it was assembled as a codex (book or compilation) during the 2nd centuryA.D. In the 4th century A.D., the Bible was still referred to in Latin as "Bibliotheca Divina", the Divine Library.

Origin of the King James Bible:

It is impossible to mention the King James Bible without referring to William Tyndale, an English contemporary of Luther’s, who has bequeathed an English language version of the Bible almost as historically significant as Luther's Bible. Tyndale was a brilliant polyglot scholar who was so fluent in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, Italian, Spanish, and French,that any of these could have been his mother tongue. His desire was for the Bible to become available to everyone in England and for all individuals to be able to understand the Scriptures as well as the clergy did.

Tyndale had met Erasmus and discovered his Greek-Latin New Testament. Fascinated by the Scripture's message, he began to translate it into English. However, faced with increasing threats in England due to his Bible translation project, he fled to Hamburg, never to return to his homeland again. His New Testament was finally printed in 1525 in Worms