[Avodah] chapters in the Bible

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

From an Israeli newspaper: The Xtian Bible (from Paris about 1250) is being

displayed in Jerusalem. It is currently the oldest Bible divided by
chapters rather than parshiot.

The Archbishop of Canterbury introduced the chapters in the early 1200s. It
was first used by the Jews by Rabbi Yitschak Natan in 1448. In 1516 was
published in Venice the first Jewish Bible using the division by chapters.
The article claims that the division into chapters was introduced into
Jewish works because of the various debates between the clergy and the Jews
where verses where refered to by their chapter