This reminds me of when young atheists get upset at "Oh my God". Like, yeah, we don't believe in gods but the phrase has a meaning devoid of religion.
I always tell them to stop saying "bye" because it's a shortening of "goodbye," which is a shortening of "god be with ye."
I've always been an atheist. Maybe that's why saying "goodbye" or even "oh my god" doesn't bother me.
My understanding is that "Bible", as a word, has nothing to do with religion. It was adopted by Christianity, but it didn't start there. To put it another way, it's kinda like how the main character in Doctor Who is just called "The Doctor". The Bible is a religious text, a bible is just a book that aggregates information together.
It became so only in that Jews and subsequently early Christian’s would refer to their scriptures as “the book” or “the holy book”. Bible comes from the Greek by way of Latin, “biblia”
It’s in the same vein as, say, Pentecostal evangelists referring to it as “The Good Book”, or “The Good Word”.
Keep in mind, for a very long time, the only book many Jews or Christian’s were likely to see on anything approaching a regular basis was indeed scripture- and that remained true until Gutenberg did his thing.
(It should be noted that literacy in the first century was generally low. There was some instruction if you attended synagogue, and specifically were looking to become a rabbi. This is also true in Roman and Greek societies.)
I believe you have the etymology backward... it came from Latin via Greek via the Phoenician city of Byblos, which exported papyrus scrolls.
We’re saying the same thing- biblia was originally a Greek word adopted into Latin; and came to English from Latin.
I found "The Drug User's Bible" to be a genuinely useful ressource.
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