The 30 Best-Selling Novels of All Time
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exuper.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
- The Hobbit by J.R.R.
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin.
The all-time most popular books in the worldrevealed
- The Holy Quran (644) - over 3 billion.
- The King James Bible (1611) - over 2.5 billion.
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964) by Mao Zendong -800 million.
- Don Quixote (1512) by Miguel de Cervantes - 500 million.
- Harry Potter series (1997-2007) by J.K.Rowling - 450million.
There are more than 168,000 Bibles that aresold or given to others in the United States everyday. 20 million.
Catholic English versions
| Abbreviation | Name | Date |
|---|
| TLB–CE | The Living Bible Catholic Edition | 1971 |
| NJB | New Jerusalem Bible | 1985 |
| CCB | Christian Community Bible | 1988 |
| NRSV–CE | New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition | 1991 |
The New Revised Standard Version is theversion most commonly preferred by biblical scholars.In the United States, 55% of survey respondents who read theBible reported using the King James Version in 2014,followed by 19% for the New International Version, withother versions used by fewer than 10%.
(The Bible's Old Testament is thought to havebeen first written down in an ancient form of Hebrew.) Untilnow, many scholars have held that the Hebrew Bibleoriginated in the 6th century B.C., because Hebrew writing wasthought to stretch back no further.
The Bible's Old Testament is very similar to theHebrew Bible, which has origins in the ancient religion ofJudaism. The exact beginnings of the Jewish religion are unknown,but the first known mention of Israel is an Egyptian inscriptionfrom the 13th century B.C.
Geneva Bible. Geneva Bible, also calledBreeches Bible, new translation of the Biblepublished in Geneva (New Testament, 1557; Old Testament,1560) by a colony of Protestant scholars in exile from England whoworked under the general direction of Miles Coverdale and John Knoxand under the influence of John Calvin.
The King James Version (KJV), also knownas the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the AuthorizedVersion (AV), is an English translation of the ChristianBible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed aswell as published in 1611 under the sponsorship of James VIand I.
The Torah is written in Hebrew, the oldest ofJewish languages. It is also known as Torat Moshe, the Law ofMoses. The Torah is the first section or first five books ofthe Jewish bible. However, Tanach is more commonly used todescribe the whole of Jewish scriptures.
The texts were mainly written in Biblical Hebrew,with some portions (notably in Daniel and Ezra) in BiblicalAramaic. Biblical Hebrew, sometimes called ClassicalHebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language.The very first translation of the Hebrew Bible was intoGreek.
