group of Old and New Testament books as Ta Biblia, “the books.” The Latins borrowed the word biblia but translated it in the singular, and from this Latin word has come our English singular “Bible.” Much has been written on the overall unity and design of this literary masterpiece. F. F. Bruce has rightly observed that this unity was not attained through the selectivity of an anthologist in compiling books of similar nature, but that the Bible “grew in the course of these many centuries until at