Who developed the system of chapter numbering used in modern Bibles? Answer: Cardinal Archbishop Stephen Langton Stephen Langton was an English cardinal of the Catholic Church and served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1207 until his death in 1228. During this time, he developed the system of chapter divisions now used in modern Bibles. The oldest biblical manuscripts present the text in continuous fashion with occasional paragraph breaks. It was not until the tenth century CE that the Masoretes, highly trained Jewish scholars of the biblical text, developed a system of cantillation symbols that included the sof pasuq or “end […]
