Definition
Ancient Phonecian port city of Gebal (called 'Byblos’ by the Greeks) on the coast of the Mediterranean sea in what is, today, Lebannon. According to the historian Durant, “Byblos thought itself the oldest of all cities; the god El had founded it at the beginning of time, and to the end of its history it remained the religious capital of Phoenicia. Because papyrus was one of the principal articles in its trade, the Greeks took the name of the city as their word for book - 'biblos’ – and from their word for books named our Bible - 'ta biblia’” which means 'the books’ (294).
Byblos (or Gebal) is also cited as the place where the Egyptian goddess Isis located the body of her dead husband in his casket, the king Osiris, in the trunk of a tree which had grown around him after his murder by his brother Set.
(Citation from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935).
Byblos (or Gebal) is also cited as the place where the Egyptian goddess Isis located the body of her dead husband in his casket, the king Osiris, in the trunk of a tree which had grown around him after his murder by his brother Set.
(Citation from Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935).
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