CSvax:Pucc-H:aeq@pur-ee.UUCP (09/01/83)
It has been said that the Bible was divided into verses by a drunk monk who was undertaking a long journey on a donkey. Every time he hiccuped, he started a new verse; every time he fell off the donkey, he started a new chapter. (Considering some of the illogical verse divisions, most notably between Galatians 5:22 and :23, this isn't that hard to believe....) -- Jeff Sargent/pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq
smb@ulysses.UUCP (09/02/83)
I don't know if the division into verses (and for that matter chapters) was due to a drunken monk, but it's certainly of comparatively recent origin. In the Talmud (~300 C.E.), reference to a passage is made by an acronym formed from the first letters of the words of it....