Drosnin describes an alleged " Bible code ", in which messages are encoded in the Hebrew bible.

In a text known as the gnostic bible, dated some-what uncertainly to centuries about the 4th BC, the Pistis Sophia apparently describes treasuries of punishment, of which there are twelve.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

Interestingly, the official bible to the series originally describes the Constructicons as having " no explained origin.

The series bible describes the Danube class vessels as " the symbol of the Federation presence in

Trade Magazine PRWeek describes Lobster as a " Hull-based intelligence magazine and conspiracy theorists ' bible ", and the Conspiracy Encylopedia described it as " the most influential publication in the parapolitical underground.

The Song of Deborah, which some textual scholars consider to be one of the oldest parts of the bible, suggests that Yahweh dwelt at Mount Seir, so many scholars favour a location in Nabatea ( modern Arabia ).

The bible also identifies Zerah as the name of the founder of one of the Simeonite clans.

Gerber and friend Martin Pasko were having dinner in the Westwood area one night during the time Gerber was writing the bible for the series.

This version of the Holy Bible is significant because, for the very first time, a mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible was made available directly to the general public which came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids ( collectively called an apparatus ), which included verse citations which allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible which acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indexes, as well as other included features — all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study bible.

In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide " one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it.

There are also two feasts ( after Esther " goes before the king " that could potentially end her life due to protocol ) prepared for the king in the bible, whereas the movie depicts only one.

Mortalist denominations such as Seventh-day Adventists generally teach that the story is but one example of ancient witchcraft or sorcery in the bible, which is founded on an unholy belief that people can communicate with the dead.

At the time the bible was one of few long printed texts in Maori enjoying wide distribution.

Al Capp once told one of his assistants that he knew Li ' l Abner had finally " arrived " when it was first pirated as a pornographic Tijuana bible parody in the mid-1930s.

The later Books of Chronicles identify Shebuel as being one of Gershom's " son " s, though this is anachronistic for a literal interpretation of the bible, since Shebuel is described as living in the time of King David.

Even these basic materials were costly: when the Anglo-Saxon Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey planned to create three copies of the bible in 692 — of which one survives as the Codex Amiatinus — the first step necessary was to plan to breed the cattle to supply the 1, 600 calves to give the skin for the vellum required.

In the adventure game Overseer from Access Software the main character Tex Murphy finds a Gideons bible in one of the rooms of the mansion of the main antagonist of the game.

In 1854, a printing press was imported by the Bishopric from Vienna, and was subsequently used to print the Buzău Bible, the fourth Romanian bible ( the first three being the Bucharest Bible in 1688, one printed in Blaj in 1792 and another printed in Saint Petersburg in 1819 ).

The first reporter on the book, writing for The New York Times, compared the book's content to a revised fusion of Indian and Semitic religions, and said its style was " in one place modern, and in another ancient, and the English of the King James version of the Christian bible is mixed in with the English of today's.

Editions of the Challoner Bible printed in England sometimes follow one or another of the revised Dublin New Testament texts ; but more often tend to follow Challoner's earlier editions of 1749 and 1750 ( as do most 20th-century printings, and on-line versions of the Douay – Rheims bible circulating on the internet ).

Tijuana bibles repeated without a trace of self-consciousness the ethnic stereotypes found in popular culture at the time, although one Tijuana bible (" You Nazi Man ") concluded on a serious note with a brief message from the publisher pleading for greater tolerance in Germany for the Jews.

Jacob Brotman, identified as one of the main players in the Tijuana bible trade in Jay Gertzman's Bookleggers and Smuthounds, had earlier been arrested in a similar raid on a Lower East Side loft reported in the New York City papers in 1936, which produced a large haul of bibles, " readers ", pornographic playing cards, and nude photos, along with printing, cutting and binding equipment.

The cover of a typical Tijuana bible, this one features J. Wellington Wimpy | Wimpy, and is drawn in the style of the anonymous " Mr. Prolific.

In the novel Water for Elephants, the term " eight-pager " is mentioned in several different locations, one of these when Kinko the dwarf is caught by Jacob Jankowski masturbating while reading a Popeye the Sailor Tijuana bible.

Her figure, one of several dangerous temptresses in the Hebrew bible, has become emblematic: " Samson loved Delilah, she betrayed him, and, what is worse, she did it for money ", Madlyn Kahr begins her study of the Delilah motif in European painting.

It was characterised by iconographic paintings illustrating scenes from the bible.

This was based on parts of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, and Bede also include a chronology of the world which was derived from Eusebius, with some revisions based on Jerome's translation of the bible.

His bible promoted the development of non-local forms of language and exposed all speakers to forms of German from outside their own area.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

Palmer published what became " the bible of American deism ", The Principles of Nature, established deistic societies from Maine to Georgia, built Temples of Reason throughout the nation, and founded two deistic newspapers for which Paine eventually wrote seventeen essays.

Before Ellison could begin work on the show's production bible, a writers ' strike began, running from March 6 to June 24.

This stone mask from the pre-ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000 BC and is probably the oldest mask in the world ( Musée de la bible et Terre Sainte )

Elizabeth reinstated the Protestant bible and English Mass, yet for a number of years refrained from persecuting Catholics.

In fact, most of the money came from Oxford's new bible printer John Baskett – and the Vice-Chancellor William Delaune defaulted with much of the proceeds from Clarendon's work.

It suffered from the absence of any figure comparable to Fell, and its history was marked by ineffectual or fractious individuals such as the Architypographus and antiquary Thomas Hearne, and the flawed project of Baskett's first bible, a gorgeously designed volume strewn with misprints, and known as the Vinegar Bible after a glaring typographical error in St. Luke.

Noah is instructed to kapar ( smear ) the ark with koper ( pitch ): in Hebrew the first of these words is a verb formed from the second, and this is the only place in the bible where " koper " means " pitch ".

Although long out-of-print, the late Seiko Fujita ’ s monumental work, Zukai Torinawajutsu could be considered a bible of the art ; showing hundreds of ties from many different schools.

This anti-Semitic standpoint concerning the bible can be traced back to the earliest time of the Nazi movement, e. g. Dietrich Eckart's ( Hitler's early mentor ) book " Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin: A Dialogue Between Adolf Hitler and Me ", where it was claimed that " Jewish forgeries " had been added to the New Testament.

According to him, he received a divine revelation through the reading and study of Christian bible and allegedly received healing from Jesus Christ.

The Shalem Colony and Oahspe Museum commemorates the utopian Shalem Colony that existed near Las Cruces from 1884 to 1907 and the Oahspe bible that they used.

The library also houses the bible of Henry the Lion, a book preserved in near mint condition from the year 1170.

It is my privilege then, to name certain passages from the bible, and examine the teachings of the ancients upon this nature, as the fact is incontrovertible, that the first mention we have of slavery is found in the holy bible, pronounced by a man who was perfect in his generation and walked with God.

In a declaration to the court in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1832 John Louis Brown's father, Dr. Morgan Brown, claimed to have " a large family bible now in my possession, with the names of my ancestors from their first landing in America in the month of 1638.

He had already produced a version of the New Testament, which was issued at Geneva in 12mo by Conrad Badius on 10 June 1557, but this differs from the version included in the Geneva or ‘ Breeches ’ bible, for which Whittingham is generally held to be mainly responsible.

Beef tripe is usually made from only the first three chambers of a cow's stomach: the rumen ( blanket / flat / smooth tripe ), the reticulum ( honeycomb and pocket tripe ), and the omasum ( book / bible / leaf tripe ).

" ( This character and storyline, which dealt with a Vietnamese opium smuggler who becomes involved in the Tate family through Jessica's long-lost son was eventually removed from the show bible.

The storyline of the movie differs from the storyline of the bible ; such as the characters interactions and timelines.