Bible

The Bible is a collection of ancient human writings. Bound together into a book, humans of the Jewish and Christian religious traditions of Earth hold either some or all of the writings contained with the bible as sacred. The individual collections of writings are referred to as books.

In Judaism, these writings are referred to as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. The writings found in the Jewish traditions make up what was called the Old Testament in the Christian version of the bible, which also included additional writings which formed what Christians referred to as the New Testament. Throughout human history, a number of different translations were made of the bible by the different faith groups. In some cases different writings were used in the bible, for example the Roman Catholic branch included different books than other Christian branches did.

When Gutenberg perfected the printing press on Earth in the 15th century, one of the first books he mass produced was the bible. In later years, his work came to be known as the Gutenberg Bible. In the 23rd century, the immortal Flint was found to have an original Gutenberg bible in his possession.(TOS episode Requiem for Methuselah) A century later, the faux historian Berlinghoff Rasmussen compared being close to Data to being able to examine an original Gutenberg bible. (TNG episode A Matter of Time)

At some point both Sarek and his son Spock had read the bible, and Sarek was known to quote from the bible. (TNG novel Probe).

The Gensis Project was named after the Book of Genesis, which was the first part of the bible when God created Earth and humanity. When Kirk began asked Spock why his former lover Carol Marcus was so concerned about giving up Genesis, Spock replied that it would helpful to know more about Genesis beyond the reference to the first book of the bible. (TOS movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan).

Behind the Scenes
The series of Star Trek: The Next Generation books that had the titles beginning with, "A Time To..." took their titles from the bible, specifically the book of Ecclesiastes.


 * ''There is a time for everything,
 * and a season for every activity under heaven:
 * a time to be born and a time to die,
 * a time to plant and a time to uproot,
 * a time to kill and a time to heal,
 * a time to tear down and a time to build,
 * a time to weep and a time to laugh,
 * a time to mourn and a time to dance,
 * a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
 * a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
 * a time to search and a time to give up,
 * a time to keep and a time to throw away,
 * a time to tear and a time to mend,
 * a time to be silent and a time to speak,
 * a time to love and a time to hate,
 * a time for war and a time for peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)''