In America, the designation of the building in which Open Brethren assemblies meet most often include the word " Chapel " in their formal name, combined with a biblical place name or principle or otherwise a local geographic feature — for instance, Bethany Chapel, Central Gospel Chapel, Park Road Bible Chapel, Riverview Believers Chapel.

For instance, Orthodox Judaism holds that the Torah was received from God on biblical Mount Sinai, and Muslims consider the Qur ' an to have been revealed word by word and letter by letter.

The reference to Mount Gerizim derives from the biblical story of Moses ordering Joshua to take the Twelve Tribes of Israel, ( the number of which did not include the priestly tribe of Levi ) to the mountains by Nablus and place half of the tribes, six in number, on the top of Mount Gerizim, the Mount of the Blessing, and the other half in Mount Ebal, the Mount of the Curse.

According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

The biblical Mount Sinai was one of the most important sacred places in the Abrahamic religions.

Some modern biblical scholars now believe that the Israelites would have crossed the Sinai peninsula in a direct route, rather than detouring to the southern tip ( assuming that they did not cross the eastern branch of the Red Sea / Reed Sea in boats or on a sandbar ), and therefore look for the biblical Mount Sinai elsewhere.

Biblical scholars have often identified it with two biblical mountains of uncertain location: Mount Moriah where the binding of Isaac took place, and Mount Zion where the original Jebusite fortress stood ; however, both interpretations are disputed.

Assuming colocation with the biblical Mount Zion, its southern section would have been walled at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, in around 1850 BCE, by Canaanites who established a settlement there ( or in the vicinity ) named Jebus.

Fasting is a biblical practice from even Old Testament times, and was mentioned by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and reportedly practiced by him as well.

Founded in 1840, the city is named for the biblical Mount Nebo.

Mount Olivet was founded around 1820 incorporated on December 27, 1851 and was named after the Mount of Olives, a biblical reference.

The name " Gilboa " is from Mount Gilboa, a biblical site in Israel, where King Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines, and Saul took his own life ( 1 Samuel 31: 4 )

It was named after Mount Tabor Baptist Church which was organied shorly after 1840 ( now Tabor City Baptist Church ), which itself is named after the biblical Mount Tabor.

While on the one hand Selassie's crowning was seen as the second coming, and events such as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War were seen as fulfillments of biblical and specifically Revelation prophecy there is also expectation that Selassie will call a day of judgment, when he will bring home the lost children of Israel ( the black peoples taken out of Africa during the slave trade ) to live with him in peace, love and harmony in the Mount Zion in Africa.

The biblical regulations concerning the Jubilee year form part of the Holiness Code, which appears in the Torah as part of the collections of laws given on Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb.

In the Oral Torah, the Mishnah comments that the biblical commandment to take the lulav, along with the other four species, is for all seven days of Sukkot only in and around the Temple Mount when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is extant, as indicated by the verse as " in the presence of Hashem, your God, for seven days.

The Deuterocanon or biblical apocrypha | Apocrypha are colored differently from the Protocanon ( the Hebrew Bible books which are considered canonical by all ).

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

The library's biblical and theological contents were more impressive: Origen's Hexapla and Tetrapla, a copy of the original Hebrew Version of the Gospel of MattitYahu, and many of Origen's own writings.

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.

Halakha () ( Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-la-chAH )— also transliterated Halocho ( Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-LUH-chuh ), or Halacha — is the collective body of religious laws for Jews, including biblical law ( the 613 mitzvot ) and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.

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.

Tefillin ( Hebrew: ת ְ פ ִ ל ִּ ין ), known in English as phylacteries ( from the Greek word φυλακτήριον, meaning safeguard or amulet ), are two square leather boxes containing biblical verses, attached to the forehead and wound around the left arm by leather straps.

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 statements and institutions of the founding generation that have been preserved are numerous, and they explicitly describe many of their biblical motivations and goals, their interest in Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible, their use of Jewish and Christian images and ideas.

The Hebrew term Midrash (; plural midrashim, " story " from " to investigate " or " study ") also " Interpretation " or " Exposition " is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis.

Christianity interprets a wide range of biblical passages in the Old Testament ( Hebrew scripture ) as predicting the coming of the Messiah ( see Christianity and Biblical prophecy for examples ), and believes that they are fulfilled in Jesus ' own explicit life and teaching:

Mary of Bethany ( Judeo-Aramaic מרים, Maryām, rendered Μαρία, Maria, in the Koine Greek of the New Testament ; form of Hebrew מ ִ ר ְ י ָ ם, Miryām, or Miriam, " wished for child ", " bitter " or " rebellious ") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of John and Luke in the Christian New Testament.

This and some other examples of apparent comparison between Greek myths and the " key characters " in the Old Testament / Torah have led recent biblical scholars to suggest a Hellenistic influence in the composition of the earlier portions of the Hebrew Bible.

According to Herbert C. Brichtothe, writing in Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College Annual, the family tomb is the central concept in understanding biblical views of the afterlife.

In biblical terminology, a Statute ( Hebrew chok ) refers to a law given without a reason.

Medieval biblical manuscripts of the Tiberian mesorah sometimes contain the Hebrew text interpolated, verse-by-verse, with the targumim.

According to the biblical etymology, the city received the name " Babel ", from the Hebrew word " balal ", meaning to jumble.

* First book printed in Yiddish ( in Kraków ), Mirkevet ha-Mishneh, a Tanakh concordance by rabbi Asher Anchel, translating difficult phrases in biblical Hebrew.

The name Tamar is of Hebrew origin and, like other biblical names, was favored by the Georgian Bagrationi dynasty because of their claim to be descended from David, the second king of Israel.

This stay would influence all his later writings, as Fray Luis de León taught biblical studies ( Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic ) at the University.

The word rabbi derives from the Semitic root R-B-B, in Hebrew script rav, which in biblical Aramaic means ‘ great ’ in many senses, including " revered ", but appears primarily as a prefix in construct forms.

The term Hebrew, perhaps related to the name of the Habiru nomads, has Eber as an eponymous biblical patriarch.

Mount Gerizim (; Samaritan Hebrew Ar-garízim, Arabic جبل جرزيم Jabal Jarizīm, Tiberian Hebrew ה ַ ר ג ְּ ר ִ ז ִּ ים Har Gərizzîm, Standard Hebrew ה ַ ר ג ְּ ר ִ יז ִּ ים Har Gərizzim ) is one of the two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the West Bank city of Nablus ( biblical Shechem ), and forms the southern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the northern side being formed by Mount Ebal.

Mount Ebal ( Jabal ‘ Aybāl ; Har ‘ Eival ) is one of the two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank ( biblical Shechem ), and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the southern side being formed by Mount Gerizim.

( In the church, the passage from I John 3: 1 – 3 and a biblical benediction are also read.

In the central highlands this resulted in unification in a kingdom with the city of Samaria as its capital, possibly by the second half of the 10th century BCE when an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I, the biblical Shishak, records a series of campaigns directed at the area.

Whether the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.

A few biblical texts, such as the Ark Narrative and stories reflecting the importance of Gath, seem to portray Late Iron I and Early Iron II memories.

Such a view may be independently attractive to the theist, as it permits an agreeable interpretation of certain biblical passages, such as "... Who makes peace and creates evil ; I am the Lord, Who makes all these.

The roots of Judeo-Christian contemplation of the ways in which God chooses to remain hidden reach back into the biblical depiction of God, for example the lament of the Psalms, " My God, my God, why have you forsaken me ?.... I cry by day, but you do not answer ...." and Isaiah's declaration, " Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

The name " Mordechai " is of uncertain origin but is considered identical to the name Marduka or Marduku attested as the name of officials in the Persian court in thirty texts ( the Persepolis Texts ) from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might very well be the biblical Mordecai.

If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther ( assuming the biblical Ahasuerus is indeed Xerxes I ).

In addition to his cantata, The Animals ' Christmas, he has always included religious songs in his albums —" Psalm One-Five-O ", " Jerusalem ", and " I Will Arise " are a few examples — and his lyrics have included biblical verses and allusions.

In his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (), written c. 540, Gildas makes an allegorical condemnation of 5 British kings by likening them to the beasts of the Christian Apocalypse as expressed in the biblical Book of Revelation, 13-2: the lion, leopard, bear, and dragon, with the dragon supreme among them .< ref >* — " And the beast which I saw was like unto a < u > leopard </ u >, and his feet were as the feet of a < u > bear </ u >, and his mouth as the mouth of a < u > lion </ u >: and the < u > dragon </ u > gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

Professor Ian Parrott, former vice-president of the Elgar Society, in his book on Elgar ( Master Musicians, 1971 ) wrote that the " dark saying ", and possibly the whole of the Enigma, had a biblical source, 1 Corinthians 13: 12, which reads according to the Authorised Version of the Bible: " For now we see through a glass, darkly ( enigmate in the Latin of the Vulgate ); but then face to face: now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I asked him to work with me on an oratorio on a biblical subject.

He stated that while his shooting style on his previous film Accattone was " reverential ", when his shooting style was applied to a biblical source it " came out rhetorical ... And then when I was shooting the baptism scene near Viterbo I threw over all my technical preconceptions.

Although primarily a biblical archaeologist, Albright was a polymath who made contributions in almost every field of Near Eastern studies: an example of his range is a BASOR 130 ( 1953 ) paper titled " New Light from Egypt on the Chronology and History of Israel and Judah ," in which he established that Shoshenq I — the Biblical Shishaq — came to power somewhere between 945 and 940 BC.

Most Egyptologists accept Shishaq as an alternative name for Shoshenq I. Rohl disputes that Shoshenq's military activity fits the biblical account of Shishaq on the grounds that the two kings ' campaigns are completely different and Jerusalem does not appear in the Shoshenq inscription as a subjected town.

The theory that Ramesses II ( hypocoristicon ' Sysa '), rather than Shoshenq I, should be identified with the biblical Shishak is not widely accepted.

Wilson accepts that there is a mismatch between the triumphal relief of Shoshenq I and the biblical description of King Shishak.

As explained above, the New Chronology, rejects the identification of Shoshenq I with the biblical Shishaq, and instead offers Ramesses II ( also known by his nickname " Sysa ") as the real historical figure behind the Shishaq narrative.

The True Love Waits pledge states: " Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship.