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.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Amram's name changes to Imram later in the Bible.

The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

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.

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.

They regard the Bible as inspired by God and, therefore, believe that, in its original form, it was error free ( errors in later copies are thought to be due to ' errors of transcription or translation ').

His mother, previously a member ( with David ) of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, joined the International Bible Students Association, which later became Jehovah's Witnesses.

In 1977, Saratoga Springs, NY disc jockey Tom L. Lewis introduced the Disco Bible ( later renamed Disco Beats ), which published hit disco songs listed by beats per minute ( tempo ), as well as by either artist or song title.

Although the Hebrew Bible describes this event as an ecstatic vision rather than a historical occurrence, later interpreters speculated as to the fate of these men, both before and after their revitalization.

It was later included in the King James Bible, something Isaac Newton commented on in An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture.

He argued against the belief in revelation and the holding on to a literal interpretation of the Bible by the predominant orthodox doctrine through a problem later to be called Lessing's Ditch.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, later identified the woman who initiated Gardner as Dorothy Clutterbuck, referenced in A Witches ' Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.

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.

A monotheistic religion originating in the Hebrew Bible ( also known as the Tanakh ) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God established with the Children of Israel.

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.

He became a lector, a minor office in the Christian church, and his later writings show a detailed knowledge of the Bible, likely acquired in his early life.

Several years later, with his brother, Isaac, Jacob published the Bible commentary Miklal Yofi by Solomon ben Melekh which included his own commentary, Lekket Shikchah ( Gleanings ), on the Pentateuch, the Book of Joshua, and part of the Book of Judges.

He later translated the Bible into Swahili.

According to the Bible, after crossing the Red Sea and leading the Israelites towards the desert, Moses was summoned by God to Mount Sinai, also referred to as Mount Horeb, the same place where Moses had first talked to the Burning Bush, tended the flocks of Jethro his father-in-law, and later produced water by striking the rock with his staff and directed the battle with the Amalekites.

The Archangel Michael, referred to later in the Bible ( Daniel ), is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.

The menorah ( ) is described in the Bible as the seven-branched ancient lampstand made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem.

The anachronism of Noah's distinguishing between " clean " animals ( seven of each ) and " unclean " animals ( two of each ) when loading the animals onto the ark, which was only established under the later Law of Moses, supports the Documentary Hypothesis which posits that the authors of the Bible retroactively applied laws to older myths to tie them into a unified religion Judaism.

The King James Bible makes many references to " brass ".

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible makes the following comment on the biblical stories of the patriarchs:

The rejection of specific exhortations and prohibitions of conduct such as those given in the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments makes the Rede's character somewhat different from major religious texts such as the Bible or the Qur ' an.

* In 2007, the International Bible Society released The Books of the Bible, which makes several changes in formatting the text.

The King James Bible translators adopted this into their translation of 2 Samuel 21: 18 – 19, although the Hebrew text at this point makes no mention of the word " brother ".

Denouncing her as a whore, he makes her swear on the Bible never to see Surtees again and to lock herself in her room.

Whatever the cultic significance of a kedeshah to a follower of the Canaanite religion, the Hebrew Bible makes it clear that cultic prostitution had no place in Yahwism.

Since the Hebrew Bible makes a point of marking the Canaanites as peoples set apart from the Israelites, the extent of the distinction between the culture of the Canaanites and the Israelites is a matter of debate.

* 1955-Donald McGavran publishes Bridges of God ; Dutch missionary " Brother Andrew " makes first of many Bible smuggling trips into Communist Eastern Europe ;

The Bible makes numerous references to a class of people known as " gerim " ( גרים ) (" ger " גר in singular ), a class of people of different origin living permanently in the country of others.

The Bible Code makes numerous predictions and post-diction, such as the false prediction of the apocalypse in 2006, and a claim of " proof " that Lee Harvey Oswald was destined to assassinate John F. Kennedy.

The Bible makes a reference to the Egyptian Vulture under the Hebrew name of rachamah / racham which has been translated into English as " gier-eagle ".

In a number of places, the Hebrew Bible makes clear that God has no shape or form, and is utterly incomparable ; thus no idol, image, idea, or anything comparable to creation could ever capture God's essence.

Another claim Drosnin makes in " The Bible Code II " is that the nation of Libya would develop weapons of mass destruction that they would then be given to terrorists who would then use them to attack the West ( specifically the United States ).

Nothing more is said of Kenaz in the Hebrew Bible, but Pseudo-Philo ( written c. AD 70 ) makes this Kenaz the first judge of Israel after Joshua, and includes several chapters of narrative about his supposed judgeship of 57 years.

Although, as defined above, sloth is more akin to apathy and inactivity, many English speakers narrow it to mean simple laziness, about which the Bible makes many comments.

* Psalm 22 ( 22nd in the Book of Psalm in the King James Bible ), described by the New American Standard Bible as the " A Cry of Anguish and a Song of Praise ", is the Psalm to which the crucified and dying Jesus makes reference, citing its first verse in Aramaic ( Matthew 27: 46 ; Mark 15: 34 )

The Appeal makes seven main arguments: First, that slavery is contrary to the Declaration of Independence ; second, that slavery is contrary to the first charter of human rights bestowed upon man in the Bible ; third, that the argument that slavery was prophesized gives no excuse to slaveholders for encroaching on another man ’ s natural rights ; fourth, that slavery was never supposed to exist under patriarchal dispensation ; fifth, that slavery never existed under Hebrew Biblical law ; sixth, that slavery in America “ reduces man to a thing ” ; and lastly, that slavery is contrary to the teachings of Jesus and his apostles.

The Canons of the Council of Carthage were later confirmed by the Quinisext Council, which makes the book a part of the Orthodox Bible ; while in the West, the book's canonicity was later ratified at the Council of Trent.

Additionally, there are two types of " false prophet " recognized in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ): the one who claims to be a prophet in the name of idolatry, and the one who claims to be a prophet in the name of the God of Israel, but declares that any word or commandment ( mitzvah ) which God has said no longer applies, or makes false statements in the name of God.

" He sometimes retorted sharply, " I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God ", and at other times was more guarded, telling a young count studying with Haeckel that " Science has nothing to do with Christ ; except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence.