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88 unusual facts about bible


1961 in Israel

20 June - Ten weeks into his war crimes trial, the prosecution having rested, Adolf Eichmann took the witness stand in his own defense, but refused to swear on the Bible.

A Man Escaped

The second part of the title comes from the Bible, John 3:8, and in English it is worded this way only in the Authorized King James Version (more recent translations using words like "wants" (which is the title in French) or "pleases" instead of "listeth").

Acts of the Kings of Israel

:The similarly named Biblical books are located at Books of Kings.

Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight

Trijicon has been the subject of some criticism for inscribing a reference to a Bible verse address (JN8:12, referring to John 8:12) alongside the model numbers on their ACOG sights.

Aharon Shulov

Shulov's objective was to acquire animals mentioned in the Bible.

Alfred Hamish Reed

The trust has amassed a collection of rare books and manuscripts for the Dunedin Public Libraries, including one of the most comprehensive collections of manuscripts and early printed Bibles in the Southern Hemisphere.

All Saints' Church, Wittenberg

Above the doors is a painting that portrays Luther on the left with a German Bible, and Philipp Melanchthon on the right, with the Augsburg Confession, the main confession of faith in the Lutheran Church which was formed by Luther and Melanchthon.

Andrzej Siemieniewski

For his motto, Bishop Siemieniewski adopted the words from the Scripture: God Is Love (Latin: Deus Caritas Est).

Another Gospel

Sola scriptura — belief in the Bible as the only infallible source of Christian teaching

Baptismal regeneration

Lutherans believe that the Bible shows how Christians are connected through baptism with Christ and the new life Christ’s work gives us.

Beast of Gévaudan

Family tradition claimed that, when part of a large hunting party, he sat down to read the Bible and pray.

Bend in the Road

Spencer continued his tradition of recording songs by Elmore James and Homesick James, and also took inspiration from poetry and passages from the Bible.

Biblical harmony

A Biblical harmony is a hermeneutic method of analyzing parallel and often disparate accounts within the Bible in an attempt to resolve apparent conflicts and demonstrate its cohesive unity.

Bloodstopping

The most common method was to walk east and recite Ezekiel 16:6, a Bible passage which reads

Boswellia

The Biblical incense frankincense was probably an extract from the resin of the tree Boswellia sacra.

Celestine and Etta Tavernier

Celestine is a dedicated Church-goer and spends most of his spare time performing religious readings and educating 'young disciples' in the teachings of the Bible.

Charles K. Johnson

He claimed the Apollo moon landings, and space exploration in general, were faked to lead people away from the truth of the Bible, which, in his opinion, taught that the Earth is flat.

Christendom Astray from the Bible

Christendom Astray From the Bible (commonly: Christendom Astray) is a polemic work by the Christadelphian Robert Roberts that claims to demonstrate that the main doctrines shared by most Christian denominations are at variance with the teachings of the Bible.

Chronicles of the Kings of Judah

:The similarly named Biblical books are located at Books of Chronicles.

Confessional Lutheranism

Quia subscription (the Book of Concord is adhered to because it is faithful to the Scriptures) implies that the subscriber believes that there is no contradiction between the Book of Concord and the Scriptures.

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Quatenus subscription (the Book of Concord is adhered to insofar as it is faithful to the Scriptures) implies that the subscriber leaves room for the possibility that there might be a contradiction of the Scriptures in the Book of Concord in which case the subscriber would hold to the Scriptures against the Book of Concord.

Daniel T. Lewis

Currently he is a Bible, math, social studies, and science teacher at the Master's Touch Christian Academy in Smyrna Tennessee.

David Kossoff

He was also well known for his story-telling skills, particularly with regard to reinterpreting the Bible.

Deborah number

It was originally proposed by Markus Reiner, a professor at Technion in Israel, inspired by a verse in the Bible, stating "The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah (Judges 5:5).

Deimberg

Christians would thereby be able to grapple with the Bible by themselves, and thus improve the general level of education.

Demonology

It is primarily based on the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament), the exegesis of these scriptures, the scriptures of early Christian philosophers and hermits, tradition, and legends incorporated from other beliefs.

Divers hands

This usage of the word Divers can be found in the Bible and other older texts, but it is not commonly used in modern English.

Dives in Misericordia

The Pope traces the message of divine mercy back to earlier books in the Bible.

Dror Green

The Bible, Sellected prose, edited by Dror Green, Books, Publishers (1993)

Erika Timm

Timm demonstrates how the practice of translating the Bible in Jewish elementary schools (kheyder) during the earliest period of the emergence of the Yiddish language influenced the formation of its Germanic Component, that the influence of Judeo-French in this context is more important than thought, and that an important part of the original translation vocabulary is present in everyday Modern Eastern Yiddish

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha

The Bible was his own everyday book and he strove unceasingly to make his people religious after a strict Lutheran pattern.

Fillan

St. Fillan was credited with powers such as the healing of the sick and also possessed a luminous glow from his left arm which he used to study and write Sacred Scriptures in the dark.

Frederic Madden

In 1850 the magnificent edition, in parallel columns, of what are known as the "Wycliffite" versions of the Bible, from the original manuscripts, upon which he and his coadjutor, Forshall, had been engaged for twenty years, was published by the University of Oxford.

Galilee, Rhode Island

The village is named after the fishing village of Galilee, the hometown of Jesus according to the Bible.

Glad Tidings

Glad Tidings (full title: Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God) is a free Bible magazine published monthly by the Christadelphians (Brethren in Christ).

Golden Isles of Georgia

Dr. Charles Layman, noted theologian, writer, and professor of Bible at the University of Florida, graciously offered to the museum items from his extensive Wesleyan collection.

Grandview Park Baptist School

Additionally Bible courses are taught at every level of the school.

Green Grass, Running Water

In addition to these four explaining the "ordinary" events, they also tell a creation story that accounts for why there is so much water; in each creation story, the four encounter a figure from the Bible, as well as the western literary figure from whom each derive his name.

Harold Oldroyd

His The Natural History of Flies is considered to be the "fly Bible".

Ioane Shavteli

David can be recognized by allusions to his biblical namesake (from whom the Georgian dynasty of Bagrationi claimed descent) as well as by interweaving words and phrases from the king’s own religious lyrics, the Hymns of Penitence (გალობანი სინანულისანი).

Islamic view of the Christian Bible

In Islam, the Bible is held to reflect true unfolding revelation from God; but revelation which had been corrupted or distorted (in Arabic: tahrif); which necessitated the giving of the Qur'an to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, to correct this deviation.

James Wickstrom

Wickstrom derives his beliefs from his interpretation of the Christian Bible.

Jean Chastel

According to tradition and several subsequent novels, he positioned himself on a prime spot to get first bids on the beast and opened the Bible.

José Alperovich

Some commentators had speculated that Alperovich would not be able to become governor if elected because of the provincial law that required him to give an oath on the Christian Bible.

Judah ben David Hayyuj

He furnishes a list of these verbs, together with their various forms occurring in the Bible.

King Davids Peak

Like other features of the park, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bathesda, many features are named for places and people in the Bible.

KTYM

Programming on the station consists mainly of church services, teaching programs, and Bible studies.

Laestadian Lutheran Church

The Laestadian Lutheran Church (LLC) is a religious Christian movement, its teachings based on the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions.

Lisa Lashes

Raised a Jehovah's Witness, on Sundays Lisa would attend meetings and knock on neighbors' doors with her parents to hand out The Watchtower and occasionally read from the Bible but her interest waned soon after her parents separated.

Loci Theologici

The term loci theologici gradually came to denote the content, and thus the chief passages of the Bible as included in the individual loci.

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Melanchthon's treatment is not only more clear than that of his predecessor, but he draws his examples from the Bible instead of from the Church Fathers, and under Pauline influence deduces, in addition to loci communes, certain loci communissimi, such as "sin," "grace," and "law."

Midrash Taame Haserot ve-Yeterot

The haggadic interpretations are derived for the most part from scattered passages in the Talmud and in the Midrashim, while the arrangement is capricious, the individual words being arranged neither according to the order of the alphabet nor according to the sequence of the books of the Bible.

Minbar

While minbars are akin to many pulpits in elevation and structure (in some churches used by readers of the Bible), they have a function and position more similar to that of a church lectern, being used instead by the minister of religion, the imam, typically for a wider range or readings and prayers.

Miracle of the gulls

LDS, prolific journal writers, often cast this disaster in Biblical terms like the 8th plague of locusts.

Muhammad in the Bible

Subsequent Muslim writers have expanded on these arguments and have claimed to identify other references to Muhammad in the text of the Bible, both in the Jewish Tanakh and in the Christian New Testament.

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A Hebrew word מחמדים (MHMDYM, read as maħǎmaddim) appears once in the Hebrew Bible, at Song of Solomon 5:16, where it is translated into English as "desirable" or "lovely".

Nazarene fellowship

That the Bible is the only source of knowledge of God’s will and purpose with the earth; of the Gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Old Deuteronomy

His name derives from Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, which shares the central element of law with the character (who is a magistrate).

Old Melbourne Gaol

They could only bathe and change clothes once a week, and attend the chapel on Sundays (with a Bible provided to promote good behaviour).

OpenLP

It includes the ability to search through lyrics for certain words; search for Bible verses in the Bible; display lyrics and Bible verses in a friendly way to the congregation; interact with Microsoft PowerPoint to provide users with an easy way to control Powerpoint.

Oromo language

The few works that had been published, most notably Onesimos Nesib's and Aster Ganno's translation of the Bible from the late nineteenth century, were written in the Ge'ez alphabet, as was the 1875 New Testament produced by Krapf.

Patrociño Barela

He was driven to carve and he chose subjects from the Bible or imaginary subjects which usually had a spiritual nature.

Per Oskar Kjølaas

He has also worked as a secretary to the bishop (Diocesan vicar) and held various positions as an educator and translator of the Bible into Sami languages.

Plague Angel

This is due to Morgan and Mortuus' fascination with the Bible, as they are both admit to being Bible experts (despite Marduk's anti-religious stance, Morgan has admitted that he uses the Bible as inspiration solely for its violent content, as he finds death and violence to be most inspirational for Marduk, and that he can "write a complete song mentally by just looking at a violent painting or image").

Pure Heart

References to the heart in this context are abundant in the Bible.

Reformed Mennonite

They have no church rules, but they rely solely on the Bible as their guide.

Republic, Missouri

The resident claimed the contents of the book are profane and violate the teachings of the Bible.

Robert Van Kampen

A family foundation owns one of the largest private collections of rare and antique Bibles in North America, presently housed in the Scriptorium at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida.

Rosier

Rosier does not appear in the Bible (or Apocrypha), and is not mentioned in the Catholic Encyclopedia or Britannica, but Rosier is recognized in esoteric tradition as a fallen angel (specifically a Dominion of the Second Sphere), and is considered the patron demon of tainted love and seduction.

Salem Municipality

The name traces its origins from Slaem in the 16th century, but was later changed to Salem, the Biblical name of Jerusalem.

Samson's Foxes

The unit's name is derived from the Bible, where the Judge Samson is described as having attached torches to the tails of three hundred foxes, leaving the panicked beasts to run through the fields of the Philistines, burning all in their wake.

Senath, Missouri

It is named after an early settler, Asenath Douglass, who was commonly called Senath and in whose family her Bible-derived name Asenath was pronounced with a long "e" and with stress on the second syllable.

Siloam Springs, Missouri

The community was founded before 1880 and is named after a pool of healing in the Bible; see John 9.

Songs That Jesus Said

All songs on the album were written jointly by Keith Getty and Kristyn Getty, and most are based on specific passages of the Christian Bible, especially the four Gospels.

Tabrimmon

Tabrimmon, also as Tabrimon, also as Tabremon in Douay-Rheims, was an Aramaean king, but there is little known about him.

Tancred Tancredi

He ascribes to him several works of as yet unpublished literature: commentaries on the Scriptures and on Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences.

The Book of Mozilla

However, apparent quotations hidden in Netscape and Mozilla give this impression by revealing passages in the style of apocalyptic literature, such as the Book of Revelation in the Bible.

The Christadelphian Tidings of the Kingdom of God

The Christadelphian Tidings of the Kingdom of God (The Tidings) is a Bible magazine published monthly by the Christadelphians (Brethren in Christ).

Valley of the Shadows

The title is perhaps inspired by Psalm 23 in the Bible, but is probably more likely to be a reference to 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' in Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress', which was itself inspired by the Psalm.

Viborg, Denmark

The cathedral is famous for its many paintings by Danish painter Joakim Skovgaard, which depict stories from the Bible.

Voskan Yerevantsi

He published the Bible in Amsterdam in the years 1666-68, which is believed to be one of the best samples of old Armenian printing.

Waiting for Godalming

The prime suspects are Colin, God's other son who has been left out of the Bible and Eartha, His wife - who hired Lazlo in the first place to solve the case.

Waking Up Laughing

It was also inspired by her Pastor, who stated "For these times in which we live, you are going to need this book." referring to the Bible.

Ward Moore

Moore is also known for the two short stories (since collected) "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible.

Wiesweiler

It is highly likely that there were already efforts underway in Wiesweiler as early as the 16th century to teach the village children to read and write, as the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken had introduced the Reformation and were interested in putting the country’s children in the position of being able to read the Bible.

Wilfred Harvey Schoff

Schoff, Wilfred H., The ship "Tyre"; a symbol of the fate of conquerors as prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh, Babylon and Rome; a study in the commerce of the Bible, (New York Longmans, Green and co., 1920)

Word of Truth

Several sermons are delivered that focus on a particular theme in the Bible.

Year of the Bible

The law recited that the Bible "has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people" and that, quoting President Jackson, the Bible is "the rock on which our Republic rests".


1614 Low German Bible

The coat of arms of Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein also appears in the 1614 Bible on the back cover.

Aaron Jeoffrey

The album, which featured guest vocals by dc Talk, produced several singles, including the CCM hit "I Go to the Rock", and "He Is", which lyrically traces the metaphorical names for Christ through all 66 books of the Bible.

Africa Bible Commentary

In 2005 WordAlive Publishers was selected by the Africa Bible Commentary Board to be the commentary's publisher for Africa.

Association of Free Lutheran Congregations

The AFLC leaders came to the consensus to create a Lutheran Bible School patterned after the fundamental teachings of the Lutheran Bible Institute founded in 1919.

Bible Grove Consolidated District No. 5 School

Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School (also known as Bible Grove School) is a historic school on the south side of Route T. at Bible Grove, Missouri.

Bible translations into Uyghur

After the Swedes had been exiled from Xinjiang, Gustaf Ahlbert, Oskar Hermannson, Dr. Nur Luke (a Uyghur), Moulvi Munshi, and Moulvi Fazil, completed the translation of the Uyghur Bible in India.

Carl Amari

“The Truth and Life Audio Bible: New Testament” was granted an Imprimatur by the Vatican, and features a foreword by Pope Benedict XVI.

Chakhei

2. Nazareth Vaih: A street named after Nazareth in the Holy Bible, which is the name of the town in Israel, the place where Jesus Christ was raised up, is somehow an attraction for visitors from outside.

Christy Marx

She wrote the game bible and most dialogue for The Legend of Alon D'ar for the PlayStation 2 console, and has worked on PC, console and MMO games.

Common English Bible

The maps of biblical lands in the Common English Bible are produced by the National Geographic Society.

Declaration of Facts

Members' homes were frequently searched by police for incriminating literature and on April 24 the International Bible Students Association (IBSA) headquarters in Magdeburg was briefly occupied by police.

Eduard Franz

Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Koster's The Story of Ruth (1960).

Eyeless in Gaza

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

Federalism

Some Christians argue that the earliest source of political federalism (or federalism in human institutions; in contrast to theological federalism) is the ecclesiastical federalism found in the Bible.

Harold C. Washington

, The Feminist Companion to the Bible, 6 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 41-58.

Harry and Tonto

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.

In Our Garden

Namoi Shemer was also famous for her knowledge of the Bible.

International legal theories

In his De jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres ("Three Books on the Law of War and Peace") of 1625, and drawing from the Bible and from the St. Augustine's just war theory, he argued that nations as well as persons ought to be governed by universal principle based on morality and divine justice.

J. I. Packer

Packer served as General Editor of the English Standard Version, an Evangelical revision of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and Theological Editor of the Study Bible version.

Jewish apocrypha

The Bible states (Gen. xli. 45, 50) that Joseph married the daughter of Potiphar, a priest of On.

Joseph MacRory

MacRory taught Scripture and Modern Theology at St Mary's College, Oscott in England until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of Scripture and Oriental Languages at his alma mater of Maynooth College.

King of Kings: The Early Years

Gameplay was split into three games, each illustrating a Bible story relating to the early years of Jesus.

Kushiel's Dart

According to the Christian Bible, Mary Magdalene was one of the closest female friends of Jesus, and was the first to discover that he had been resurrected.

Lailah

There is no direct indication of angelic involvement in Abraham's coalition with the Semite kings Chedorlaomer, Tidal, Amraphel and Arioch and their night attack on the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Lawrence Lovasik

He published more than 30 books and over 75 pamphlets including prayer books, Bible stories for children, lives of the saints, and catechisms.

Lighthouse Trails Publishing

The company moved its headquarters to Eureka, Montana and launched a new division of Lighthouse Trails Publishing "The Shepherd's Garden", and began creating Shepherd's Organic Bible Verse Tea in order to support their research.

Mannose

The root of both "mannose" and "mannitol" is manna, which the Bible records as the food supplied to the Israelites during their journey in the region of Sinai.

Mark XI

Mark 11 or Mark XI, the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible

Meir Shalev

1985 Bible Now, a book containing interpretations of Hebrew Bible stories from his personal point of view, which first appeared in the newspaper Haaretz.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

It is, for instance, the title of an essay by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

Mordechai Yosef Leiner

He presents defenses of various Biblical sins, such as Korach's rebellion, Pinchas's zealotry, and Judah's incident with Tamar.

Paul Kaiwi

Kaiwi attended School of the Prophets bible school in Copperas Cove, Texas, then received his Bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997.

Pelagianism

Johann Pupper, also known as Johannes von Goch (c. 1400-1475), an Augustinian, recommended a return to the text of the Bible as a remedy for Pelagianism.

Penrose Methodist Chapel

The Methodist societies established by William O’Bryan (1778-1868) became known as the Bible Christians, and the first formed at Launcells and Shebbear along the Devon and Cornwall border largely on agricultural land.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Strong's Concordance

Many scholarly Greek and Hebrew Lexicons (e.g., Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Thayer's Greek Dictionary, and Vine's Bible Dictionary) also use Strong's numbers for cross-referencing, encouraging hermeneutical approaches to study.

Testamentum Domini

The Conclusion (book 2:25-27) brings us back to the injunctions of the Lord as to the keeping of these precepts, a special charge to John, Andrew and Peter, and a statement that copies of the Testament were made by John, Peter and Matthew, and sent to Jerusalem by the hands of Dosithaeus, Sillas, Magnus and Aquila.

The Gospel of Filth

The Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence & Darkness (formerly known as "The Gospel of Filth: A Black Metal Bible") is a book by Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley, documenting the history of the band Cradle of Filth and straying further afield to explore their influences and "lay bare the fascinating underworld of contemporary culture".

The Respectable Burgher

The "higher criticism" that Hardy refers to is criticism that refutes the literal truth of Biblical Scripture, and gives scientific evidence against the supposed revealed truth of the Bible.

Theistic science

These views have been criticised by Christian physicist Howard J. Van Till, who rejects the conflict thesis, for relying on "folk exegesis" in his assessment of the bible's teachings on creation.

Unvarnished New Testament

English-speaking Christians such as Helen Barrett Montgomery, Clarence Jordan, Olaf M. Norlie, Kenneth N. Taylor, Jay P. Green and Richard Francis Weymouth have long expressed dissatisfaction with older, archaic-sounding Bible translations.

William Gurnall

John Newton, the converted slave trader, said that if he was confined to one book beside the Bible, he'd choose Christian Armour. Cecil spent many of the last days of his life in reading it, and repeatedly expressed his admiration of it.