Stephanus is Estienne.
Tom Izbicki
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bunbury wrote:
> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:59:14 -0500
> From: Bunbury <[log in to unmask]>
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: chapter and verse numbers
>
> At 02:25 PM 11/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Can anyone clarify who added chapter and verse numbers to the Bible, and
> >when? And maybe why, if for any reason other than ease of reading.
> >I thought the numberers were anonymous, but Halley's Bible Handbook (p. 755)
> >lists Cardinal Caro (1236) and Robert Stephens (1551). This doesn't sound
> >right, because I thought Concordances (which would use chapter and verse
> >numbers) go back to the 12th century.
>
> Walter Specht has a useful article ("Chapter and Verse Division") in The
> Oxford Companion to the Bible. He attributes chapter divisions to Stephen
> Langton ( d. 1228; U Paris, later Abp of Canterbury) and the current
> numbered verses to Robert Stephanus (1551 Gk/Lt ed of the NT).
>
> Tom Long
>
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