Scripture - "book", which is a diminutive of βίβλος [bíblos] - "book", a noun derived from the word βυβλος [byblos] meaning "papyrus", from the name of the Phoenician city of Byblos, known for the production of papyrus) is the name for the Hebrew Bible (Hebrew: תַּנַ"ךְ - Tanah) and the Christian Bible, which consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

The idea of ​​the Christian Bible as the New Testament originated from early Christian texts that saw Christ as a mediator in a new covenant with God. The Christian Bible, ie the New Testament, contains 27 scriptures. These writings can be divided into 4 types of religious texts: four gospels, one early church history, twenty-one epistles, one apocalypse.