(January 29, 2016 at 5:02 am)robvalue Wrote: Indeed.That's a very serious question because it's almost 100 percent certain that the idea of chapters and verses didn't pop up until the late Middle Ages. The idea is so useful in religious fairy tales that all of the ones I know about use them. That means that the translators took the original jumbled mess and organized it into chewable pieces. The Islamic hierarchy then took the translated version and retranslated it into Arabic using the new format of chapters and numbered verses and passed it off as original.
The idea that God forgot to put in proper chapter breaks is pretty hilarious.
Maybe someone can produce a clean copy of an authentic original Koran that includes chapters and numbered verses.
Is there any other legitimate book from the early 7th Century that includes chapters and the numbered verse format?
