[lbo-talk] Americans and the bible

[Chris Doss]

I sort of suspected that. Was this something to do with liturgy, or with ease of reference? (E.g., you wouldn't have to write out "and Jesus said blah blah blah," you could just write "Chapter X Verse Y"?)
 
Are divisions constant across translations and chuches?

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From: Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
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much later. Chapter divisions in the 13th century, and modern versification
and numbering in the middle of the 16th century. There are longer traditions
of something like paragraphing in both the NT and Tanakh (including
numbering), but neither has anything to do with the modern divisions.