Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan describes the importance of understanding the covenant in relation to interpreting Hosea.

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin ( von ) Tischendorf ( January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874 ) was a noted German Biblical scholar.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon.

Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan differentiates between Josephus's account of John and Jesus like this: " John had a monopoly, but Jesus had a franchise.

David M. Scholer, a Biblical scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, stated that the verse Gal 3: 28 is " the fundamental Pauline theological basis for the inclusion of women and men as equal and mutual partners in all of the ministries of the church.

Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

* December 7 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar ( b. 1815 )

* May 24 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar ( d. 1971 )

* February 15 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar ( d. 1874 )

* April 28 – Ezra Abbot, American Biblical scholar ( d. 1884 )

** William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer ( b. 1524 )

Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba ‘ al Zəbûl, " Lord of the High Place " ( i. e., Heaven ) or " High Lord ".

From these figures for the size of a Biblical ell, that of the basic unit — the fingerbreadth ( Etzba ) — can be calculated to be either 22 or 21 mm ; Jewish rabbinical sources approximate at either 20 mm, or according to Talmudic scholar Chazon Ish, 25 mm.

Biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan discusses this as an inaccuracy regarding Mordecai's age.

The Passover Plot ( ISBN 1-85230-836-2 ) is the name of a controversial, best-selling 1965 book, by British Biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield who has also published a translation of the New Testament informed with a Jewish perspective.

* John Howard Yoder-Prominent Mennonite theologian and ethicist and Biblical scholar

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

* McClintock, John, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

* 1 John from the Biblical Resource Database

* Provan, Iain William, Long, V. Philips, Longman, Tremper, " A Biblical History of Israel " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2003 )

Divergences between the passage's presentation and the Biblical accounts of John include baptism for those whose souls have already been " purified beforehand by righteousness " is for purification of the body, not general repentance of sin ( Mark 1: 4 ).

* John Brown ( theologian ) ( 1722 – 1787 ), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator

Puritan millennialism has been placed in the broader context of European Reformed views on the millennium and interpretation of Biblical prophecy, for which representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius.

Biblical commentator and pastor John Macarthur writes, " The emphasis is on how to maintain a church with an effective testimony in proper response to sound eschatology and obedience to the truth.

Christian authors of late antiquity such as Origen, Jerome, St. Ignatius, John Chrysostom, and Augustine interpreted meanings of Biblical texts within a highly asceticized religious environment.

* Elisabeth ( Biblical person ), the mother of John the Baptist

In paintings and statues most of the Old Testament Biblical characters such as Moses and Abraham and Jesus ' New Testament disciples such as St Peter are with beard, as was John the Baptist.

The church contains Biblical paintings, a colossal statue of Christ seated between the Virgin Mary and St John ( 13th century, originally belonging to the cathedral of Thérouanne and presented by the emperor Charles V ), the cenotaph of Saint Audomare ( Omer ) ( 13th century ) and numerous ex-votos.

Dispensationalism, in contrast to the Millerite Adventist movement, had its beginning in the 19th century, when John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren religious denomination, incorporated into his system of Biblical interpretation a system of organizing Biblical time into a number of discrete dispensations, each of which marks a separate covenant with God.

In the same periodical, in the course of 1788 and 1789, appeared the Letters to Archdeacon Travis, against George Travis, on the debated Biblical verse called the Comma Johanneum ( 1 John 5: 7 ); the Letters were collected in 1790 into a volume.

* M ' Clintock, John, and James Strong, " Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature " ( New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1880 ).

* Susan Elliott, Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul's Letter to the Galatians in Its Anatolian Cultic Context Reviews in Review of Biblical Literature

Rabbis expounded on and debated the Tanakh ( Hebrew: ת ַּ נ ַ" ך ְ‎), the Hebrew Bible, without the benefit of written works ( other than the Biblical books themselves ), though some may have made private notes (), for example of court decisions.

There are numerous study Bibles available with extensive notes on the text and background information to make the Biblical stories more comprehensible.

Rabbis expounded and debated the law ( the written law expressed in the Hebrew Bible ) and discussed the Tanakh without the benefit of written works ( other than the Biblical books themselves ), though some may have made private notes (), for example of court decisions.

Another very useful study aid, found in almost all editions of the Talmud, consists of the marginal notes Torah Or, Ein Mishpat Ner Mitzvah and Masoret ha-Shas by the Italian rabbi Joshua Boaz, which give references respectively to the cited Biblical passages, to the relevant halachic codes and to related Talmudic passages.

The first word of each Biblical book is also as a rule surrounded by notes.

Biblical scholar Craig A. Evans also ascribes to this view and notes that " Over half of the New Testament writings are quoted, paralleled, or alluded to in Thomas ...

Some of his thoughts are accessible in the Biblical Commentaries, notes compiled by his students at the Canterbury School.

Fellow Biblical archaeologist William Dever notes that " central theses have all been overturned, partly by further advances in Biblical criticism, but mostly by the continuing archaeological research of younger Americans and Israelis to whom he himself gave encouragement and momentum ...

Biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson notes that the methods of " biblical archaeology " have also become outmoded: " and Albright's historical interpretation can make no claim to be objective, proceeding as it does from a methodology which distorts its data by selectivity which is hardly representative, which ignores the enormous lack of data for the history of the early second millennium, and which wilfully establishes hypotheses on the basis of unexamined biblical texts, to be proven by such ( for this period ) meaningless mathematical criteria as the ' balance of probability ' ..."

* Robinson, Edward, Eli Smith ( 1841 ): Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, Published by Crocker & Brewster, Item notes: v. 2 p. 257, 279, 305

* Robinson, Edward, Eli Smith ( 1841 ): Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838a, Published by Crocker & Brewster, Item notes: v. 2

This Open Bible is filled with amazing study aids including comprehensive book introductions and outlines, 64-page concordance, Read-Along references and translation notes, and the classic Biblical Cyclopedic Index covering more than 8, 000 textual entries.

* Robinson, Edward, Eli Smith ( 1841 ): Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838a, Published by Crocker & Brewster, Item notes: v. 3 ( p. 161, p. 169, p. 195 )

* Robinson, Edward, Eli Smith ( 1841 ): Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838a, Published by Crocker & Brewster, Item notes: v. 3 ( p. 376 )

* Robinson, Edward, Eli Smith ( 1841 ): Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838a, Published by Crocker & Brewster, Item notes: v. 3

Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of diacritical notes on the external form of the Biblical text in an attempt to fix the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions and cantillation of the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh, for the worldwide Jewish community.

Glosses and other marginal notes were a primary format used in medieval Biblical theology, and were studied and memorized for their own merit.

Biblical manuscripts have liturgical notes at the margin, for liturgical use.

The New English Translation ( NET Bible ) is a free, " completely new " on-line English translation of the Bible, " with 60, 932 translators ’ notes " sponsored by the Biblical Studies Foundation and published by Biblical Studies Press.

* Autobiography, Aus meinem Leben: Selbstbiographie von K. G. Bretschneider ( Gotha, 1851 ); translation, with notes, by George E. Day, in Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository, Nos.

In his 1997 book, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, historian Rashid Khalidi notes that the archaeological strata that denote the history of Palestine — encompassing the Biblical, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Fatimid, Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods — form part of the identity of the modern-day Palestinian people, as they have come to understand it over the last century, but derides the efforts of some Palestinian nationalists to attempt to " anachronistically " read back into history a nationalist consciousness that is in fact " relatively modern.