If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century ; this was a time of widespread city-destruction, but with a few exceptions ( Hazor, Lachish ) the destroyed cities are not the ones the Bible associates with Joshua, and the ones it does associate with him show little or no sign of even being occupied at the time.

Although his name does not appear in any other part of the Jewish Bible, Rabbinic tradition holds Habakkuk to be the Shunammite woman's son, who was restored to life by Elisha in 2 Kings 4: 16.

The university requires use of the King James Version ( KJV ) of the Bible in its services and classrooms, but it does not hold that the KJV is the only acceptable English translation or that it has the same authority as the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.

The introduction to the book asserts that it " contains, as does the Bible, the fullness of the everlasting gospel.

Belief in the allegorical interpretation of the Bible does not exclude belief in praxeological or literal hermeneutics.

As his wife does gymnastics and magic tricks, his crazy mother invents her own vocabulary, and his aunt writes her own version of the Bible, Five Oaks Assistant City Manager Wyatt Palmer tries to live a normal life and nearly succeeds, but ...

Judaism does not accept the retronymic labeling of its sacred texts as the " Old Testament ", and some Jews refer to the New Testament as the Christian Testament or Christian Bible.

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 Hebrew Bible does not have a unique word for guilt, but uses a single word to signify: " sin, the guilt of it, the punishment due unto it, and a sacrifice for it.

The Bible does not directly mention the addition of " embolismic " or intercalary months.

For instance, he does not hesitate to reproach the rabbis of his day for their general neglect not only of the thorough study, but even of the obligatory perusal, of the Bible, charging them with a preference for Talmudic dialectics.

The phrase olam ha-ba, ( עולם הבא ) " world to come ", does not occur in the Hebrew Bible.

Like other religious terms, such as " Trinity ", the term " Limbo " does not appear in the Bible.

What most of the world does not realize is that Carpathia is actually the Antichrist foretold from the Bible.

Because Malachi's name does not occur elsewhere in the Bible, some scholars indeed doubt whether " Malachi " is intended to be the personal name of the prophet.

The Hebrew Bible does not explicitly mention the Law in connection with Noah, nor that there were seven laws.

All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning ; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation ... We say that God Himself is a self-existing being ... Man does exist upon the same principles ... Bible does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement, does not recognize the book as inspired, although it is included in the church's canon and printed in church-published copies of the Bible.

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

The phrase " The Tower of Babel " does not actually appear in the Bible ; it is always, " the city and its tower " () or just " the city " ().

The name " Yahweh " does not appear in the text of most popular English Bible translations on the market today.

In 1611, the inaugural edition of the King James Bible editors did not include the name ” Yahweh ,” not being aware of the rendering, though Jehovah does appear several times.

Liberal Christians tend to regard the Bible as the record of human doings, composed of humans encountering the Divine within their specific historical context.

They often interpret passages of the Bible as being less a record of actual events, but rather stories illustrating how to live ethically and authentically in relation to God.

Since 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has identified the Book of Mormon as the " record of the stick of Ephraim " () while the stick of Judah is identified with the Bible.

The sources for the history of ancient Israel and Judah can be broadly divided into the biblical narrative ( the Hebrew Bible, Deuterocanonical and non-biblical works for the later period ) and the archaeological record.

* In some medieval Greek and Latin sources, theologia ( in the sense of " an account or record of the ways of God ") could refer simply to the Bible.

# The Bible: The Old and New Testament Scriptures are the record of God's progressive revelation to mankind.

The record sales led the record company to request a third album, and Vangelis went on to conceive the double-album 666, based on Revelation, the last book in the Bible.

Evidence of Israelite worship of Canaanite gods appears both in the Bible and the archaeological record.

He sees people flee from Europe to settle in America ; that the Bible ( a record from the Jews ) would travel among the people ; that the people settling in America would drive the indigenous people out of the land ; that the settlers would overpower Europe ; the discovery and translation of the Book of Mormon ; and that the apostle John the Revelator would write concerning the final days.

The Bible does not show Jesus or his apostles celebrating birthdays and The Watchtower claims the absence of any record of the date of the birth of Jesus or his apostles indicates that " God does not want us to celebrate any of these birthdays ".

In August, following publication of this remark in Datebook, there are Beatles protests and record burnings in the Southern US's Bible Belt.

In discussing the role of his discipline in interpreting the biblical record, Dever has pointed to multiple histories within the Bible, including the history of theology ( the relationship between God and believers ), political history ( usually the account of " Great Men "), narrative history ( the chronology of events ), intellectual history ( ideas and their development, context and evolution ), socio-cultural history ( institutions, including their social underpinnings in family, clan, tribe and social class and the state ), cultural history ( overall cultural evolution, demography, socio-economic and political structure and ethnicity ), technological history ( the techniques by which humans adapt to, exploit and make use of the resources of their environment ), natural history ( how humans discover and adapt to the ecological facts of their natural environment ), and material history ( artefacts as correlates of changes in human behaviour ).

The test case was the book of Joshua and its account of a rapid, destructive conquest of the Canaanite cities: but by the 1960s it had become clear that the archaeological record did not, in fact, support the account of the conquest given in Joshua: the cities which the Bible records as having been destroyed by the Israelites were either uninhabited at the time, or, if destroyed, were destroyed at widely different times, not in one brief period.

There is no official record of it in Pharisaic or Rabbinic sources, and it was among several books that were left out of the canon established by the Sanhedrin ( possibly at the so-called Council of Jamnia, c 80 AD, though this theory has been largely discredited, see Development of the Hebrew Bible canon for details ).

Influenced strongly by Karl Barth and other dialectical theologians of Europe, he began to emphasize the Bible as a human record of divine self-revelation ; it offered for Niebuhr a critical but redemptive reorientation of the understanding of man's nature and destiny.

It is commonly stated that Pope Boniface VIII instituted the first Christian Jubilee in the year 1300, and it is certain that this is the first celebration of which we have any precise record, but it is also certain that the idea of solemnizing a fiftieth anniversary was familiar to medieval writers, no doubt through their knowledge of the Bible, long before that date.

* The second was a record album of readings in Satanic ritual and philosophy by the Church of Satan, called " The Satanic Mass ", which contained material later to appear in their Satanic Bible ( published in 1969 ).

The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts date to about the 2nd century BCE ( fragmentary ), the oldest record of the complete text survives in a Greek translation called the Septuagint, dating to the 4th century CE ( Codex Sinaiticus ) and the oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic text upon which modern editions are based date to the 9th century CE.

However the Bible does record some direct statements from God ( i. e .," Thus says the Lord ...", " And God said ...", etc .).

The episode in question, The Bible: Fact or Fiction ?, sought to debunk the notion that the Bible is an empirically reliable historical record.

Applewhite took a materialistic view of the Bible, seeing it as a record of extraterrestrial contact with humanity.

On September 17, 2009, Swann Galleries auctioned an early edition of the Bay Psalm Book, circa 1669-1682, bound with an Edinburgh Bible, for $ 57, 600 — an auction record for any edition of the work.