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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Biblical versification
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Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 19:48:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  1 19:48:14 1983
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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....