[net.religion] Biblical versification

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....