

Bartholomew Kuma is always seen holding this book (a bible)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pd8c2.png)

What is this book?

**EDIT**

What type of bible is this? Just a regular bible, a bible from the One Piece
world, or what? Is he some kind of priest? His shirt has same pattern as the
bible.


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What book (bible) does Kuma always hold?


As the cover mentions, it is a [Bible](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible)

> The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a
> canonical collection of texts considered sacred in Judaism and Christianity.
> There is no single "Bible" and many Bibles with varying contents
> exist.[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible) The term Bible is shared
> between Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their
> collections of canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups
> include different books within their Biblical canons, in different orders,
> and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material
> into canonical books.


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It's clear from the pic that it's The Bible. And I believe that there is only
one Bible (content-wise). About different versions - they're all translated
from the original Bible. You can get a clearer view about the different
versions of Bible [here](http://www.bible.ca/b-many-versions.htm).

> [Kuma](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Bartholomew_Kuma) is an enormous man,
> (22'6" feet tall). He is the tallest remaining Shichibukai (being one inch
> shorter than former member Gekko Moriah) and **is usually seen carrying a
> Bible.**

Source: [Bartholomew Kuma - The One Piece
Wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Bartholomew_Kuma) (emphasis added)

Here's a pic depicting the name of the book much more clearly.

![Bartholomew Kuma holding a Bible](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CAz39.png)


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Assuming the Bible to Kuma is a religous text or historical account, the one
he carries cannot rationally be any complete version of the Christian Bible
that exists in our world without adding extreme plot elements that do not
exist in universe yet or having the Bible be fiction in-universe. These
changes are not merely a sudo-Christian faith which we can infer already
exists somewhere in universe and is not (alone) a major change.

Any version of the Bible makes reference to specific places and historical
details (such as the Roman empire) that are undeniably real. These places do
not exist in the One Piece Universe. I can only come up with the following
ways to have his version be an exact duplicate of a real version: a sea
identical to our world, accessible parrellel universes, the book from another
planet, or OP world is a post apocalyptic version of our own.

Any of these would be large changes to the One Piece universe and, therefore,
should be considered unlikely at this point in time. The assumption should,
therefore, be that Bartholomew Kuma's Bible is a version that does not exist
in our universe. The core concepts of the Bible do not need to be changed.


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