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.

The Bible also calls it Beth-Lehem Judah, and " a city of David ".

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 Christian Bible refers to Jesus being at the Jerusalem Temple during " the Feast of Dedication and it was winter " in John 10: 22-23, the Greek term used is " the renewals " ( Greek ta engkainia τὰ ἐγκαίνια ).

The Bible refers to the denarius as a day's wage for a common laborer ( Matthew 20: 2 ; John 12: 5 ). The value of the denarius is referred to, though perhaps not literally, in the Bible at Revelation 6: 6: " And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, ' A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius Vulgate: bilibris tritici denario et tres bilibres hordei denario, δηναρίου in the original Greek ; and do not damage the oil and the wine.

* The Qahal, an organisational structure mentioned in the masoretic text of the Bible, which the Septuagint refers to as the Ekklesia.

The Hebrew Bible refers to " Hittites " in several passages, ranging from Genesis to the post-Exilic Ezra-Nehemiah.

A 1761 " Brief Account of the various Translations of the Bible into English " refers to the 1611 version merely as a new, compleat, and more accurate Translation, despite referring to the Great Bible by that name, and despite using the name " Rhemish Testament " for the Douay – Rheims Bible version.

The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible.

However, messiahs were not exclusively Jewish kings, and the Hebrew Bible refers to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, as a messiah.

The term " deposit of faith " refers to the entirety of Jesus Christ's revelation, and is passed to successive generations in two different forms, sacred scripture ( the Bible ) and sacred tradition.

In other Christian beliefs ( e. g. the beliefs of the Christadelphians ) the word " satan " in the Bible is not regarded as referring to a supernatural, personal being but to any " adversary " and figuratively refers to human sin and temptation.

The Hebrew Bible refers uncritically to slavery as an established institution.

In addition, targumim are used today as sources in text-critical editions of the Bible ( BHS refers to them with the abbreviation ).

The Bible refers to Leviathan and Rahab, from the Hebrew Tanakh, although ' great creatures of the sea ' ( NIV ) are also mentioned in Book of Genesis 1: 21.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Chirst, which Latter-day Saints believe is a companion book of scripture with the Bible, refers to temple building in the ancient Americas by a group of people called the Nephites.

Aaron's rod refers to any of the staves carried by Moses ' brother, Aaron, in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Elam as a personal name also refers to eight other figures appearing in the Hebrew Bible:

Easton's Bible Dictionary generally refers to the < cite > Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition </ cite >, by Matthew George Easton, M. A., D. D.

Zerah or Zérach ( ז ֶ ר ַ ח / ז ָ ר ַ ח " Sunrise ", Standard Hebrew Zéraḥ / Záraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Zéraḥ / Zāraḥ ) refers to five different people in the Hebrew Bible.

The location the Bible refers to is unknown, as its determination relies heavily on the location of Mount Sinai.

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.

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 (,, ).