The chief Biblical text concerning the rite is: " Is any among you sick?

He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Biblical text.

The Biblical text used by the Orthodox includes the Greek Septuagint and the New Testament.

The text was almost unanimously considered pseudepigraphal when Biblical canon was decided upon, and does not appear in any Greek copies of the Bible at all, nor is it known in Syriac or other versions.

The Spanish manuscript also contains a preface by one assuming the pseudonym ' Fra Marino ', claiming to have stolen a copy of the Italian version from the library of Pope Sixtus V. Fra Marino reports that, having a post in the Inquisition Court, he had come into possession of several works, which led him to believe that the Biblical text had been corrupted, and that genuine apostolic texts had been improperly excluded.

Presence of apparently superfluous words or letters, chronology of events, parallel narratives or other textual anomalies are often a springboard for interpretation of segments of Biblical text.

The form of the name as recorded in the Masoretic text is indeed the expected form of the Biblical Hebrew active participle.

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

When text has a significant political or religious influence ( such as the reconstruction of Biblical texts ), scholars have difficulty reaching objective conclusions.

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The statement is then analyzed and compared with other statements used in different approaches to Biblical exegesis in rabbinic Judaism ( or-simpler-interpretation of text in Torah study ) exchanges between two ( frequently anonymous and sometimes metaphorical ) disputants, termed the ( questioner ) and ( answerer ).

Another important function of Gemara is to identify the correct Biblical basis for a given law presented in the Mishnah and the logical process connecting one with the other: this activity was known as talmud long before the existence of the " Talmud " as a text.

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Listening to the reading of Scripture and a sermon based upon the Biblical text is virtually always included in United Methodist worship.

The Zohar assumes four kinds of Biblical text exegesis, from the literal to the more mystical:

Partly his reasons were sound scholarly ones — the Masoretic text claims an unbroken history of careful transcription stretching back centuries — but his choice was confirmed for him, because it placed Creation exactly four thousand years before 4 BC, the generally accepted date for the birth of Christ ; moreover, he calculated, Solomon's temple was completed in the year 3000 from creation, so that there were exactly 1000 years from the temple to Christ, who was the fulfilment of the Temple .< ref > James Barr, Biblical Chronology: Legend Or Science?

This copper snake according to the Biblical text is wrapped around a pole and used for healing.

Midrashim ) is a Hebrew word referring to a method of reading details into, or out of, a Biblical text.

Unlike the descriptions of other Biblical Judges, the first reference to Shamgar has no introduction, conclusion, or reference to the length of reign, and the subsequent text follows on directly from the previous narrative.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are currently the best route of comparison to the accuracy and consistency of translation for the Hebrew Bible, due to their date of origin being the oldest out of any Biblical text currently known.

This chain of tradition includes the interpretation of unclear statements in the Bible ( e. g. that the " fruit of a beautiful tree " refers to a citron as opposed to any other fruit ), the methods of textual exegesis ( the disagreements recorded in the Mishna and Talmud generally focus on methods of exegesis ), and Laws with Mosaic authority that cannot be derived from the Biblical text ( these include measurements ( e. g. what amount of an non-kosher food must one eat to be liable ), the amount and order of the scrolls to be placed in the phylacteries, etc.

The papal encyclical Casti Connubii ( 1930 ) invokes this Biblical text in support of the teaching of the Catholic Church against contracepted sex.

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According to a persistent legend, the name " Bozrah " was derived from another Biblical text, which came to someone's mind under the particular circumstances surrounding the community's petition to the Connecticut General Assembly for township status.

Much criticism has been leveled at this rather forced analogy, but what is equally significant is Adams' complete acceptance of the Biblical record as `` good and trustworthy history ''.

Indeed, a tremendously destructive tsunami that arose in the Arabian Sea in 1945 has even revived the interest of geologists and archaeologists in the Biblical story of the Flood.

The drama itself -- and this seems to be lavishly true of Biblical drama -- often has hardly any relationship with authenticity at all.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

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.

Some Christians believe that the Law was " completed " by Jesus and has become irrelevant to " faith life ", for details see Biblical law in Christianity.

Over the last 100 years some mainstream Christian theologians and Biblical scholars have gradually been developing beliefs which the Christadelphian community has historically held.

The Christadelphian distinction between representation and substitution has been noted in the relevant scholarly literature, and representative participation ( an interpretation long held by Christadelphians ) is widely considered the original Biblical teaching on the atonement.

It contains almost no doctrine, teachings, or narrative not found elsewhere, and its exclusion from the Biblical canon has little effect.

For instance, the Archbishop of Wales has criticized " atheistic fundamentalism " broadly and said " Any kind of fundamentalism, be it Biblical, atheistic or Islamic, is dangerous ".

Verbal morphology has remained relatively unchanged, though Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew have lost some modal distinctions of Biblical Hebrew and created others through the use of auxiliary verbs.

These dreams are another factor which has lead some scholars to associate Imhotep with the Biblical figure of Joseph.

Consequently Kenyon's work has been cited to support the Minimalist School of Biblical Archaeology.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

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.

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.

Many Christians support a secular state, and may acknowledge that the conception has support in Biblical teachings, particularly the statement of Jesus in the Book of Luke: " Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's .".

Although it is commonly held that an allegorical interpretation justified its inclusion in the Biblical canon, scholarly discussion has not reached any consensus yet on Song of Songs and leaves other possibilities open.

A parallel has been drawn between these activities and the human condition according to the Biblical account of the expulsion from the garden of Eden.

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.