Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

Apart from the kings of Gerar, the Bible also records this name for:

The Bible can fall into both the category of ecclesiastical sources and also this category, as the Beowulf poet would have relied on Old English translations.

In the Masoretic Text, it appears as a single work, either the first or last book of the Ketuvim ( the latter arrangement also making it the final book of the Jewish Bible ).

He also admitted: " We can't point to a verse in the Bible that says you shouldn't date or marry inter-racial.

It also considers the Hebrew Bible, which is known as the Old Testament, to be canonical.

Knowledge of the Neo-Babylonian zodiac is also reflected in the Hebrew Bible.

Some descendants of the Catholic Apostolic Church also known as Irvingism, such as Apostelamt Jesu Christi, Apostelamt Juda, Restored Apostolic Mission Church and the Old Apostolic Church also believes in the allegorical interpretation of the Bible.

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

Both the Jewish Bible and the New Testament also contain passages some have interpreted as describing same-sex relationships, for example David and Jonathan or the centurion and his servant ; these are likewise the subject of scholarly debate, with most arguing that the relationships depicted are platonic.

This idea is first found in the Torah ( the five books of Moses, which are also included in the Christian Bible ) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible.

The New American Bible also says that Psalm 93 alludes to " an ancient myth " in which God battles a personified Sea.

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.

Christadelphians understand the Bible to teach that male and female believers are equal in God's sight, and also that there is a distinction between the roles of male and female members.

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran, is also the author of 3: 16 Bible Texts Illuminated, in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.

The Jewish historian Josephus speaks of there being 22 books in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish tradition reported also by the Christian bishop Athanasius.

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

The Bible designates Nisan, which it calls Aviv (), as the first month of the year ().

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

" Citing Numbers 31: 13 – 47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women, and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls, at God's behest, Paine calls the Bible a " book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy ; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!

The Apology of the Augsburg Confession identifies Holy Scripture with the Word of God and calls the Holy Spirit the author of the Bible.

Every single statement of the Bible calls for instant, unqualified and unrestricted acceptance.

Every promise of the Bible calls for unshakable trust in its fulfillment.

* Another detailed analysis, one written by theologian Ray Stedman, calls it the " Olivet Prophecy: The most detailed prediction in the Bible.

The word " tefillin " is not found in the Bible, which calls them ṭoṭafot.

The priest may read a short passage from the Bible that proclaims God's mercy and calls man to conversion, and then the penitent confesses his sins, helped if necessary by the priest, after which the priest gives him counsel for his life and proposes an act of penance, which the penitent accepts to make satisfaction for sin and to amend his life.

) Most of all, he was convinced that the Bible describes a human's transformation from a materialistic to a spiritual being, which he calls rebirth or regeneration.

In 1937, the door-to-door preaching program was extended to formally include " back calls " on interested people and Witnesses were urged to start one-hour Bible studies in the homes of householders.

He typically works with various members of the congregation in the house-to-house preaching work, and may also conduct personal Bible studies and pastoral calls.

What followed was a period of increased sovereignty among local churches, what McKean calls a " reactionary ' new vision ' of autonomous congregations, consensus leadership with no lead evangelists, the elimination of structured outreach ( Bible Talks ) and the elimination of discipleship partners.

The Oxford English Dictionary calls theories that the name is a corruption of " jaws " or " jeu " " baseless and inept " and goes on to say, " More or less satisfactory reasons may be conjectured: e. g. that the instrument was actually made, sold, or sent to England by Jews, or supposed to be so ; or that it was attributed to them, as a good commercial name, suggesting the trumps and harps mentioned in the Bible.

The Bible calls this new Horus-king ' Mizraim ' but this name is, in reality, no more than an epithet.

Hicks ' teachings is that the Bible is the infallible Word of God and that it calls on Christians to grow to spiritual maturity, both in their moral development and in their spiritual love relationship with Jesus Christ, in order to be in the Bride of Christ.

Some of these deviations have a basis in time-honored, extra-Biblical traditions ( e. g., that the infant Jesus was visited by three " kings " Bible calls them " magi " or " astrologers ", yet does not state how many there were ).

Strauss has also criticized the ESV for what he calls " Biblish ", which, he says, " is produced when the translator tries to reproduce the form of the Greek or Hebrew without due consideration for how people actually speak ", and considers the ESV, like other formal-equivalent versions, to be " a good supplement " to dynamic or periphrastic versions, but " unsuited as a standard Bible for the Church " or for main use.

" Love your neighbor as yourself ," states the Bible (), an injunction that Akiva ben Joseph in Genesis Rabbah 24: 7 famously calls a " great principle " of the Torah ( or perhaps " the greatest principle ").

The Hebrew Bible calls the day Yom Hakippurim ( Hebrew, " Day of the Atonement / s ").

Essentially, the declaration calls upon these Christians to stop seeking private revelation and seek guidance from the Bible only.

It was composed originally in the Greek language, in what Stephen Westerholm of the Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible calls " very fluently ... and in a highly rhetorical and affected Greek style.

A Bible Answer's website calls for Camping to resign from the Family Radio board, citing " the self-proclaimed expert on the Bible has brought reproach upon Christ, the Bible, and the church ," and adds " After taking the money of his supporters, let Harold give up all he has, to show he believes what he is preaching.