The Bible, the most imortant book of Christian religion, has been put into different languages for these 2000 years. The word "Bible" is not on the Basic word list, but it gives us little trouble, because, in countries where English is a common language, this book frequently goes by the name of "the Book." If you go back in the history of languages, you will in fact see that the sense of this word was, first of all, "book."