If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

He was filled with knowledge of the Bible and the Talmud.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

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.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

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.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

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.

The school was founded in 1949 under the name United Baptist Bible Training School ( UBBTS ), and served as both a secondary school and a Bible school.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

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.

< center > Nymphs and Satyr ( William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873 )</ center > In many versions of the Bible, Isaiah 13: 21 and 34: 14, the English word " satyr " is used to represent the Hebrew se ' irim, " hairy ones ," from " sa ' ir " or " goat ".

According to the Bible the site should function as the center of all national life — a governmental, judicial and, of course, religious center ( Deut 12: 5-26 ; 14: 23-25 ; 15: 20 ; 16: 2-16 ; 17: 8-10 ; 26: 2 ; 31: 11 ; Isa 2: 2-5 ; Oba 1: 21 ; Psa 48 ).

Located near the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, it was an important spa and resort center in the late 1800s and early twentieth century as well as the location for a campus of what is now John Brown University ( JBU ) and facilities for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Word of Life maintains a conference center, summer youth camps, a Bible Institute and place of worship at its properties in Schroon Lake.

The Bible Way Church Family Worship Center would be opening up a new facility that would double as a church and a community center with sports, a medical clinic, skating, and other activities.

< center > Arrange the letters from Book of Genesis | Genesis 26: 5 – 10 in a 33 column grid and you get a word search with " Bible " and " code ".

He also won a Fielding Bible Award as the top fielding center fielder in MLB.

He won his second Fielding Bible Award as the top MLB center fielder in 2008.

* Won Fielding Bible Award at center field ( New York Mets, 2006, 2008 )

During his tenure, Calvary was nationally known as a center for fundamentalism and efforts to reform society in his vision of Bible based morality.

Ministries include the Bible Fellowship Board of Missions ; Church Extension Ministries ; Fellowship Community, a home for the aged ; Pinebrook Bible Conference, a Christian conference and retreat center ; and Victory Valley Youth Camp.

The conference headquarters, Rosedale Bible College, Choice Books ' distribution center, and the offices of Rosedale Mennonite Missions are all located in Rosedale, Ohio, a rural crossroads about 30 miles west of Columbus, Ohio.

The Unity of the Brethren church has adopted a church emblem having an open Bible, with a cross behind in the center, and a chalice in front to the left.

In the center of the shield, flanked by three spears ( two of them holding Dominican banners ) on each side, is a Bible with a small cross above it and said to be opened to the Gospel of John, either to chapter one or chapter 8, verse 32, which reads Y la verdad nos hará libre ( And the truth shall make you free ).

The Literary Study Bible was typeset as a normal book — in single-column, single-paragraph, with no cross-references, in-text chapter or verse numbers, or topical headings — in order to achieve this focus on the Bible as literature, in contrast to the common " reference book " or " dictionary "- type settings of most Bibles, especially older ones ( typeset with one verse per paragraph, double column, center column references, intrusive chapter and verse numbers at the beginning of each verse-paragraph ).

The use of arches and domes closely models other building of Jerusalem and the gardens throughout the center contain many trees and other plants named in the Bible.

During the 1890s, Ellen White reformed the curriculum to make the Bible the center of study, in place of the classics.

The true essence of God being inaccessible to our understanding, the Bible offers the name of God as substitute ; making it the object of human reverence, and the center of ancestral tradition.

A fresco from Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, medieval Eastern Orthodox Church | Orthodox tradition, renovated 20th centuryElijah is mentioned once more in, which will be his final mention in the Hebrew Bible.

Both the Bible ( including, but not limited to the Book of Proverbs ) and medieval Latin ( aided by the work of Erasmus ) have played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across Europe, although almost every culture has examples of its own.

* 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 author of the Zohar drew upon the Bible commentaries written by medieval rabbis, including Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi and even authorities as late as Nahmanides and Maimonides.

" Most notable early medieval Polish works in Latin and the Old Polish language include the oldest extant manuscript of fine prose in the Polish language entitled the Holy Cross Sermons, as well as the earliest Polish-language Bible of Queen Zofia and the Chronicle of Janko of Czarnków from the 14th century, not to mention the Puławy Psalter.

Dating from 1675, this document envisaged hundreds of works, including the Bible in Greek, editions of the Coptic Gospels and works of the Church Fathers, texts in Arabic and Syriac, comprehensive editions of classical philosophy, poetry, and mathematics, a wide range of medieval scholarship, and also " a history of insects, more perfect than any yet Extant.

The dwarves ' characteristics of being dispossessed of their homeland ( the Lonely Mountain, their ancestral home, is the goal the exiled Dwarves seek to reclaim ), and living among other groups whilst retaining their own culture are all derived from the medieval image of Jews, whilst their warlike nature stems from accounts in the Hebrew Bible.

** The Morgan Bible, a French medieval picture Bible

Thus hermeneutics expanded from its medieval role explaining the correct analysis of the Bible.

In addition to poetry and fiction, medieval Jewish literature also includes philosophical literature, mystical ( Kabbalistic ) literature, ethical ( musar ) literature, legal ( halakhic ) literature, and commentaries on the Bible.

The binding of the Stavelot Bible, and the remaining fragments from the retable ( altar screen ) at Stavelot are also high points of medieval art.

His name is composed in Hebrew of the same three consonants as a root speculated by people to have originally meant " breath ", because rabbis postulated one of its roots thus, also " waste ", but is used in the Hebrew Bible primarily as a metaphor for what is " elusive ", especially the " vanity " ( another definition by the rabbis of medieval France, Rashi in specific from his translation into Old French ) of human beauty and work e. g. Hevel Hayophi ( He-vel Ha-yo-fi ) vanity is as beauty from the Song of Songs of Solomon.

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.

Most modern English speakers encounter " thou " predominantly in the works of William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, in the works of other medieval and early modern writers, and in the King James Bible.

There are two survivors of these medieval and renaissance forms: The rather large Bargueno desk or Vargueno, a chest desk from 16th-century Spain, and the relatively small Bible box, which probably had a later origin.

A number of Old English Bible translations ( pre-1066 ) were prepared in medieval England, rendering parts of the Bible into the Old English language.

* The Morgan Bible, a French medieval picture bible

John Rogers ( Bible editor and martyr ) | John RogersThe principal institutions of medieval Birmingham collapsed within the space of eleven years between 1536 and 1547.

The special collections, believed to be among the largest in the United Kingdom, include medieval illuminated manuscripts and examples of early European printing, including a Gutenberg Bible, the second largest collection of printing by William Caxton, and the most extensive collection of the editions of the Aldine Press of Venice.

The library's collections include exquisite medieval illuminated manuscripts, examples of early European printing including a fine paper copy of the Gutenberg Bible and books printed by William Caxton, and personal papers of distinguished historical figures including Elizabeth Gaskell, John Dalton and John Wesley.

The Morgan Bible ( The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Ms M. 638 ) is a medieval picture Bible of 43 folios.