Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.

Textual scholars attribute the biblical genealogy to the Book of Generations, a document originating from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source.

Using the biblical Book of Revelation as a point of departure, Caesar Antichrist presents a parallel world of extreme formal symbolism in which Christ is resurrected not as an agent of spirituality but as an agent of the Roman Empire that seeks to dominate spirituality.

The most common view today accepts Martin Noth's thesis that Kings concludes a unified series of books which reflect the language and theology of the Book of Deuteronomy, and which biblical scholars therefore call the Deuteronomistic history.

The biblical Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of Persia.

In her article “ The Book of Esther and Ancient Storytelling ,” biblical scholar Adele Berlin discusses the reasoning behind scholarly concern of the historicity of Esther.

The cantillation signs for the large poetic section in the middle of the Book of Job differ from those of most of the biblical books, using a system shared with it only by Psalms and Proverbs.

Most modern day biblical scholars assert that the Book of Lamentations was written by one or more authors in Judah, shortly after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC ; and was penned as a response to Babylonian Exile, the intense suffering of the people of Judah, and the complete and utter destruction of Jerusalem.

The Book of Lamentations reflects the theological and biblical view that what happened to Jerusalem was a deserved punishment ; and its destruction was instigated by their god for the communal sins of the people.

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

: This article is about the main speaker in the biblical Book of Ezekiel.

The Garden of Eden ( Hebrew ג ַּ ן ע ֵ ד ֶ ן, Gan ʿEdhen ), is the biblical " garden of God ", described most notably in the Book of Genesis ( Genesis 2-3 ), but also mentioned, directly or indirectly, in Ezekiel, Isaiah and elsewhere in the Old Testament.

The proverb " pride goes before a fall " ( from the biblical Book of Proverbs, 16: 18 ) is thought to summate the modern use of hubris.

Purim ( Hebrew: Pûrîm " lots ") is a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the plot of the evil Haman, who sought to exterminate them, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther.

The biblical account of the life of Jacob is found in the Book of Genesis, chapters 25-50.

During this holiday the Torah portion containing the Ten Commandments is read in the synagogue, and the biblical Book of Ruth is read as well.

* Nebuchadnezzar II ( 634-562 BC ), the Babylonian ruler mentioned in the biblical Book of Daniel

According to the biblical First Book of Kings, when David was old, " he could not get warm.

Rebecca a biblical matriarch from the Book of Genesis and a common first name.

The biblical narrative of Pentecost, where the 12 Disciples of Christ ( Acts 1: 13, 26 ) along with about 108 other individuals ( Acts 1: 15 ), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus ( Acts 1: 14 ) received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

* Job ( biblical figure ), the central character in the Book of Job

The Magician's Nephew has similar biblical allusions, reflecting aspects of The Book of Genesis such as the creation, original sin and temptation.

The Number of the Beast, commonly linked to the number 666, is a biblical prophecy from the Book of Revelation.

There are accounts in the biblical Book of Esther of dispatches being sent from Susa to provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of Xerxes the Great ( 485 – 465 BC ).

For biblical references to Sheol see Genesis 42: 38, Isaiah 14: 11, Psalm 141: 7, Daniel 12: 2, Proverbs 7: 27 and Job 10: 21, 22, and 17: 16, among others.

The title is a reference to the biblical Book of Job and James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice.

# Diabolical Oppression, in which there is no loss of consciousness or involuntary action, such as in the biblical Book of Job in which Job was tormented by a series of misfortunes in business, family, and health ;

Notably, the modern popular use of mogui as ' demonic ' and gui as ' devils ' is somewhat a consequence of Western influences as Chinese-language biblical texts translate the Satan in the Book of Job and the Greek term ' diabolos ' as mogui.

# REDIRECT Job ( biblical figure )

# REDIRECT Job ( biblical figure )

# REDIRECT Job ( biblical figure )

# REDIRECT Job ( biblical figure )

Many people believed it to be the biblical Book of Job, when in fact it was a book of JOB brand cigarette papers.

The plot of Legends is similar to the biblical story of Job, with the evil god Darkseid making a wager with the mysterious Phantom Stranger that he can make humanity turn against its heroes.

In the biblical Book of Job, mallûḥa ( מ ַ ל ּ֣ ו ּ ח ַ, probably Mediterranean Saltbush, A. halimus, the major culinary saltbush in the region ) is mentioned as food eaten by social outcasts ().

# REDIRECT Job ( biblical figure )

J. B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish and is a modern retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job — hence the title: J. B ./ Job.

* J. B. – based on the biblical character Job ; a man confronted by many tests of his faith in God.

The dating of Jubilees has been somewhat problematic for biblical scholars.

A short distance away, an arcade dating to the end of the 2nd century gives access to the cubicula of the sacraments, with their frescoes from the first half of the 3rd century hinting at baptism, the Eucharist and the resurrection of the flesh ; in the region of Saint Militiades next door, a child's sarcophagus has a front sculpted with biblical episodes.

Petrie surveyed a group of tombs in the Wadi al-Rababah ( the biblical Hinnom ) of Jerusalem, largely dating to the Iron Age and early Roman periods.

After noting how David set a pattern by setting his son Solomon on the throne before his death, Nadav Na ' man writes, " When taking into account the permanent nature of the co-regency in Judah from the time of Joash, one may dare to conclude that dating the co-regencies accurately is indeed the key for solving the problems of biblical chronology in the eighth century B. C.

The use of wine has a long history in Judaism, dating back to biblical times.

The Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including works dating from prehistory to the present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art and Life Wings, and features the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world.

" Finally, in the longest chapter of the book, Morris addresses " problems in biblical geology ," which include commonly used dating methods ( such as Carbon-14 measurements ) as well geological formations, such as coral reefs, petrified forests, and varves, all of which imply great age for the earth.

" The very early dating of these non-canonical sources has not been accepted by many biblical scholars.

It has been speculated that, based on historical dating and the accomplishments of Senusret II, he may be the unnamed Pharaoh mentioned in the biblical story of Joseph.

The oldest handwritten book in the collection is a Coptic codex of the biblical Book of Proverbs dating from the 3rd century ; the oldest printed book is an 8th century Buddhist text from Japan, the Hyakumantó Darani.