Poe also mentions the Balm of Gilead, a reference to the Book of Jeremiah ( 8: 22 ) in the Bible: " Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there?

Some Witnesses volunteer for missionary service, and may be invited to receive specialized training at the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead.

The Bishops ' Bible is also known as the " Treacle Bible " because of its translation of Jeremiah 8: 22 which reads " Is there not treacle at Gilead?

In the Bible, " Gilead " () means hill of testimony or mound of witness, (), a mountainous region east of the Jordan River, situated in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Hebrew Bible repeatedly mentions a " balm in Gilead " or " balm of Gilead ," references and symbolism which have appeared repeatedly in Western culture, see Balsam of Mecca.

Moreover, their missionary training school is named the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead

* “ Treacle Bible ” ( Beck's Bible ): In the 1549 edition of the Great Bible, Jeremiah 8: 22 was translated “ Is there no tryacle in Gilead ?” Modern translations usually have " balm " or " medicine " instead.

* " Rosin Bible " 1604: Jeremiah 8: 22 reads " is there no rosin in Gilead ?".

Jabesh Gilead is mentioned in the Bible in the first

Gilead is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.

* Gilead School, Jehovah's Witnesses ' missionary training program headquartered in Patterson, New York ; officially chartered as Watchtower Bible School of Gilead

Gilead ( a place mentioned in the Bible ) was famed for its small trees that produced a resin used in medicine.

Lucas lists labdanum ( along with frankincense, myrrh, galbanum, and storax ) among the only materials most certain to have been used in ancient Egypt and that labdanum " was abundant in the countries bordering the Mediterranean with which Egypt had intercourse .” He writes that in the Bible “ it is stated that certain merchants carried ladanum into Egypt from Gilead ( Genesis, xxxvii: 25, Revised Version ) and that Jacob sent ladanum to Egypt as a present to his son Joseph ( Genesis, xliii: II Revised Version ).” Newberry reports that the ancient Egyptians were acquainted with labdanum as early as the 1st century.

The Bible in I Kings 17: 1 indicates that Elijah was from Tishbe which is in Gilead.

Watchtower Bible School of Gilead is the formal name of the missionary school of Jehovah's Witnesses, typically referred to simply as Gilead or Gilead School.

In 1942, at the height of the war, Nathan H. Knorr, then president of the Watchtower Society, proposed the establishment of Watchtower Bible School of Gilead.

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

The Book of Lamentations (, Eikhah, ʾēkhā ( h )) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah.

The Bible also refers to it as (, " the Eastern sea ") and (, " Sea of the Arabah ").

Jacob (;, ; Septuagint ; ; " heel " or " leg-puller "), also later known as Israel (,,, " persevere with God "; Septuagint ; ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur ' an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.

Moses (, ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

The Tanakh (, or ; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach ) is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible.

Zechariah (, " YHWH has remembered "; Zakariya < nowiki >'</ nowiki > or Zakkariya ; Zakharias ; ) was a person in the Hebrew Bible and traditionally considered the author of the Book of Zechariah, the eleventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic ( OCS ) (, slověnĭskŭ językŭ ) was the first literary Slavic language, developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianisation of the Slavic peoples.

Altars (, mizbe ' ah, " a place of slaughter or sacrifice ") in the Hebrew Bible were typically made of earth or unwrought stone.

Tishbite is a word used in the Bible to refer to Elijah (,,, ).

* In the Bible Solomon set up a trade with Tarshish and received ivory, apes, and peacocks (, ) from Tarshish which are all native to the jungles in India.

The concept of sabbatical has a source in shmita, described several places in the Bible (, for example, where there is a commandment to desist from working the fields in the seventh year ).

The foundational Bible passage for sabbatical concepts is, in which God rested ( literally, " ceased " from his labour ) after creating the universe, and it is applied to people ( Jew and Gentile, slave and free ) and even to beasts of burden in one of the Ten Commandments (, reaffirmed in ).

Esther and Mordecai, by Aert de GelderMordecai or Mordechai (, IPA value: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

The Tabernacle (, mishkan, " residence " or " dwelling place "), according to the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, was the portable dwelling place for the divine presence from the time of the Exodus from Egypt through the conquering of the land of Canaan.

Manna () or al-Mann wa al-Salwa (,, ), sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is an edible substance that, according to Judeo-Christian and Islamic doctrine, God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert according to the Bible and the Qur ' an.

Samson, Shimshon (, meaning " man of the sun "); Shamshoun ( /) or Sampson () is the third-to-last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) ( Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16 ).

Yeshua (, with vowel pointing-yēšūă ‘ in Hebrew ) was a common alternative form of the name (" Yehoshuah "-Joshua ) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period.

Joseph (, Yosef ; " May Yahweh add ";, ) is an important person in the Hebrew Bible and in the Quran, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

The biblical phrase, " an eye for an eye ", (, ayin tachat ayin, literally ' an eye under an eye '), is a quotation from several passages of the Jewish Bible.

The Land of Nod (, ארץ נוד ) is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located " on the east of Eden " ( qidmat -‘ Eden ), to which Cain chose to flee after murdering his brother Abel.

In the Hebrew Bible, before the Babylonian Exile, the month is called Ziv (, ).

the Bible depicts God cursing the serpent, the earth and Cain (,, ).

Bible and Spade 8 / 3, pp. 65 – 72, 1995.

Held by many Protestant groups who take what they believe is a more literal interpretation of the Bible, including many, but not most, Pentecostal Charismatic and Baptist churches and Independent and ' Non-denominational ' churches as well as a few of the Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan / Methodist churches.

Christians accept the Written Torah and other books of the Hebrew Bible as Scripture, although they generally give readings from the Koine Greek Septuagint translation instead of the Biblical Hebrew / Biblical Aramaic Masoretic Text.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

There are also a number of Bible Education / Learning Centres around the world.

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The Book of Deuteronomy ( from Greek Δευτερονόμιον, Deuteronomion, " second law ";, Devarim, " words ") is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah / Pentateuch.

This most likely applies to King Solomon, but may also refer to his successors as the Bible referred to Judah as Israel in Kings / Chronicles for example.

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These films, many with mythological or Bible themes, were low-budget costume / adventure dramas, and had immediate appeal with both European and American audiences.

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* Joseph ( film ), a German / Italian / American television movie from 1995, which tells the story of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes " motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.

Generally, the greater the role of God in one's doctrine of inspiration, the more one accepts the doctrine of biblical inerrancy and / or authoritativeness of the Bible.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible ( Pentateuch / Torah ), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC.