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74 unusual facts about Bible


1961 in Israel

20 June - Ten weeks into his war crimes trial, the prosecution having rested, Adolf Eichmann took the witness stand in his own defense, but refused to swear on the Bible.

40 Days for Life

The 40 days concept comes from a pattern repeated in the Bible, such as in Noah's Ark, Moses's 40 days on Mount Sinai, and Jesus's 40 days in the desert.

A Man Escaped

The second part of the title comes from the Bible, John 3:8, and in English it is worded this way only in the Authorized King James Version (more recent translations using words like "wants" (which is the title in French) or "pleases" instead of "listeth").

Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight

Trijicon has been the subject of some criticism for inscribing a reference to a Bible verse address (JN8:12, referring to John 8:12) alongside the model numbers on their ACOG sights.

Baptismal regeneration

Lutherans believe that the Bible shows how Christians are connected through baptism with Christ and the new life Christ’s work gives us.

Beast of Gévaudan

Family tradition claimed that, when part of a large hunting party, he sat down to read the Bible and pray.

Bijbels Museum

There are also some replicas of the ancient Jewish Temple, including models of Solomon's Temple and Herod's Temple, as well as a 19th-century model of the Tabernacle, a reconstruction of the sacred shrine housing the Ark of the Covenant described in the Hebrew Bible, which the Israelites carried with them during their exile in the desert under the leadership of Moses.

Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel

The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel is one of the lost books of the Old Testament.

Boswellia

The Biblical incense frankincense was probably an extract from the resin of the tree Boswellia sacra.

Caetano Pinho

Pinho is a spiritual person and likes to read books like the Holy Bible.

Catechumen

It is recorded in the Bible that Paul the Apostle, who started out as a Jewish persecutor of the Church, underwent sudden conversion on the way to Damascus when Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision.

Chapel Field Christian Schools

The school's nickname is the Lions, which comes out of the Bible, where Jesus Christ is referred to as the “Lion of Judah.”

Charles K. Johnson

He claimed the Apollo moon landings, and space exploration in general, were faked to lead people away from the truth of the Bible, which, in his opinion, taught that the Earth is flat.

Christendom Astray from the Bible

Christendom Astray From the Bible (commonly: Christendom Astray) is a polemic work by the Christadelphian Robert Roberts that claims to demonstrate that the main doctrines shared by most Christian denominations are at variance with the teachings of the Bible.

Chronicles of the Kings of Judah

:The similarly named Biblical books are located at Books of Chronicles.

Clan Malcolm

The Reverend Arhibald MacCallum translated parts of the Bible into Gaelic.

Confessional Lutheranism

Quatenus subscription (the Book of Concord is adhered to insofar as it is faithful to the Scriptures) implies that the subscriber leaves room for the possibility that there might be a contradiction of the Scriptures in the Book of Concord in which case the subscriber would hold to the Scriptures against the Book of Concord.

Daniel T. Lewis

Currently he is a Bible, math, social studies, and science teacher at the Master's Touch Christian Academy in Smyrna Tennessee.

David Kossoff

He was also well known for his story-telling skills, particularly with regard to reinterpreting the Bible.

Deborah number

It was originally proposed by Markus Reiner, a professor at Technion in Israel, inspired by a verse in the Bible, stating "The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah (Judges 5:5).

Deimberg

Christians would thereby be able to grapple with the Bible by themselves, and thus improve the general level of education.

Demonology

It is primarily based on the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament), the exegesis of these scriptures, the scriptures of early Christian philosophers and hermits, tradition, and legends incorporated from other beliefs.

Dror Green

The Bible, Sellected prose, edited by Dror Green, Books, Publishers (1993)

Echthroi

The singular form of the word, Echthros (Ἐχθρός), is used in many versions and translations of the Bible for "enemy".

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha

The Bible was his own everyday book and he strove unceasingly to make his people religious after a strict Lutheran pattern.

Fillan

St. Fillan was credited with powers such as the healing of the sick and also possessed a luminous glow from his left arm which he used to study and write Sacred Scriptures in the dark.

François de Sagon

He published in 1544 Apologye en défense pour le Roy, a text defending the actions of Francis I in the Franco-Ottoman alliance, by drawing parallels with the Parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible, in which Francis is compared to the wounded man, the Emperor to the thieves, and Suleiman to the Good Samaritan providing help to Francis.

Frederic Madden

In 1850 the magnificent edition, in parallel columns, of what are known as the "Wycliffite" versions of the Bible, from the original manuscripts, upon which he and his coadjutor, Forshall, had been engaged for twenty years, was published by the University of Oxford.

Ganglion cyst

The term "Bible cyst" (or "Bible bump") is derived from a common treatment in the past that consisted of hitting the cyst with a Bible or similarly large book.

George Akiyama

Akiyama also participated in creating a manga version of the Bible, which was published by Gentosha in 2005.

Golden Isles of Georgia

Dr. Charles Layman, noted theologian, writer, and professor of Bible at the University of Florida, graciously offered to the museum items from his extensive Wesleyan collection.

Grandview Park Baptist School

Additionally Bible courses are taught at every level of the school.

Harold Oldroyd

His The Natural History of Flies is considered to be the "fly Bible".

Herren-Sulzbach

Noteworthy inside is the gallery upon eight-sided wooden pillars whose balustrade bears paintings of Bible stories.

Hugh of Saint-Cher

With the aid of many of his Order, he edited the first concordance of the Bible (Concordantiae Sacrorum Bibliorum or Concordantiae S. Jacobi), but the assertion that we owe the present division of the chapters of the Vulgate to him is false.

Ibrahim al-Yaziji

He was editor of several newspapers and magazines such as Nagah, Tabib, Diya, and was instructed by Jesuits to translate the Bible into Arabic.

In Our Garden

Namoi Shemer was also famous for her knowledge of the Bible.

Islamic view of the Christian Bible

In Islam, the Bible is held to reflect true unfolding revelation from God; but revelation which had been corrupted or distorted (in Arabic: tahrif); which necessitated the giving of the Qur'an to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, to correct this deviation.

James Wickstrom

Wickstrom derives his beliefs from his interpretation of the Christian Bible.

Jean Chastel

According to tradition and several subsequent novels, he positioned himself on a prime spot to get first bids on the beast and opened the Bible.

Jean-Marie Seroney

He busied himself in the new school and would cycle back to Kapsabet where the translation of the Bible to Nandi had begun.

King Davids Peak

Like other features of the park, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bathesda, many features are named for places and people in the Bible.

KTYM

Programming on the station consists mainly of church services, teaching programs, and Bible studies.

László Z. Bitó

His third novel, based on Biblical stories, "Abraham and Isaac" brought him literary success in 1998.

Lectio continua

The term lectio divina is distinct from this practice and refers to stages of Christian meditation contemplative prayer based on the reading of the Bible.

Leonard Orr

When he converted to Christianity and started to read the Bible, he took Jesus' words ("He who believes in me shall never taste death.") literally, that anyone who believed in Jesus would not die.

Loci Theologici

The term loci theologici gradually came to denote the content, and thus the chief passages of the Bible as included in the individual loci.

Mannose

The root of both "mannose" and "mannitol" is manna, which the Bible records as the food supplied to the Israelites during their journey in the region of Sinai.

Miracle of the gulls

LDS, prolific journal writers, often cast this disaster in Biblical terms like the 8th plague of locusts.

Musée Arménien de France

It represents the culture and traditions of Armenia through ceramics, translated Bibles and other liturgical works, religious objects, amulets, paintings, and about 500 coins.

Oath of office

In an inauguration ceremony a new Spanish Prime Minister takes an oath of office over an open Constitution next to the Holy Bible and before the King of Spain and other dignitaries.

Oromo language

The few works that had been published, most notably Onesimos Nesib's and Aster Ganno's translation of the Bible from the late nineteenth century, were written in the Ge'ez alphabet, as was the 1875 New Testament produced by Krapf.

Palanki Venkata Ramachandra Murthi

He studied the Bible in deptha and offered interpretations in easily understandable manner.

Peniel Layout

Founded in 2007, Peniel is a place derived from the Bible (Genesis 32:30) wherein Jacob was blessed by God after his hip was broken by God and changed his name from Jacob to Israel.

Per Oskar Kjølaas

He has also worked as a secretary to the bishop (Diocesan vicar) and held various positions as an educator and translator of the Bible into Sami languages.

Reformed Mennonite

They have no church rules, but they rely solely on the Bible as their guide.

Reformed Political League

In 1967 the first manifesto of principles was published, in which the party again stressed that the Bible was the basis of their policy.

Republic, Missouri

The resident claimed the contents of the book are profane and violate the teachings of the Bible.

Robert S. Sargent

Sargent's literary subjects included his family, the American South, art, love, the Bible, and jazz.

Rosier

Rosier does not appear in the Bible (or Apocrypha), and is not mentioned in the Catholic Encyclopedia or Britannica, but Rosier is recognized in esoteric tradition as a fallen angel (specifically a Dominion of the Second Sphere), and is considered the patron demon of tainted love and seduction.

Rufus Choate

A precocious child, at six he is said to have been able to repeat large parts of the Bible and of Pilgrim's Progress from memory.

Salem Municipality

The name traces its origins from Slaem in the 16th century, but was later changed to Salem, the Biblical name of Jerusalem.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Siloam Springs, Missouri

The community was founded before 1880 and is named after a pool of healing in the Bible; see John 9.

St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School

This motto is taken from the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 40 of the Bible.

St. Stephen, Martyr Roman Catholic Church

Gordon helped get the community on its feet by establishing Christian Formation, a ministry of teaching young people about the Bible and Catholicism, for parish children in elementary through high school age groups.

Story of the Book of Kings

:The similarly named Biblical books are located at Books of Kings.

The Book of Mozilla

However, apparent quotations hidden in Netscape and Mozilla give this impression by revealing passages in the style of apocalyptic literature, such as the Book of Revelation in the Bible.

The Shack

In his "Doctrine" series, Mars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll criticized The Shack for presenting a non-Biblical view of the Trinity, including the use of graven imagery, goddess worship, and modalism.

Voskan Yerevantsi

He published the Bible in Amsterdam in the years 1666-68, which is believed to be one of the best samples of old Armenian printing.

Ward Moore

Moore is also known for the two short stories (since collected) "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible.

Wiesweiler

It is highly likely that there were already efforts underway in Wiesweiler as early as the 16th century to teach the village children to read and write, as the Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken had introduced the Reformation and were interested in putting the country’s children in the position of being able to read the Bible.

Word of Truth

Several sermons are delivered that focus on a particular theme in the Bible.

Year of the Bible

The law recited that the Bible "has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people" and that, quoting President Jackson, the Bible is "the rock on which our Republic rests".


Aaron Jeoffrey

The album, which featured guest vocals by dc Talk, produced several singles, including the CCM hit "I Go to the Rock", and "He Is", which lyrically traces the metaphorical names for Christ through all 66 books of the Bible.

Adam Kadmon

The Silver Jews song Pet Politics contains the line "Adam was not the first man 'though the Bible tells us so. There was one created before him, whose name we do not know. He also lived in the garden, but he had no mouth or eyes. One day Adam came to kill him and he died beneath these skies" an oblique reference to Adam Kadmon.

Africa Bible Commentary

In 2005 WordAlive Publishers was selected by the Africa Bible Commentary Board to be the commentary's publisher for Africa.

Akiva ben Joseph

Aquila was a man after Akiva's own heart; under Akiva's guidance he gave the Greek-speaking Jews a rabbinical Bible (Jerome on Isa. viii. 14, Yer. ḳid. i. 59a).

Albanian literature

Of special importance in supporting this are: a baptizing formula (Unte paghesont premenit Atit et Birit et spertit senit) of 1462, written in Albanian within a text in Latin by the bishop of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli; a glossary with Albanian words of 1497 by Arnhold von Harff, a German who had travelled through Albania, and a 15th-century fragment from the Bible from the Gospel of Matthew, also in Albanian, but in Greek letters.

Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania

There, he founded a printing house in 1582, publishing in 1588 the "Barther Bible", a bible in the Low German language, as translated by Johannes Bugenhagen.

Carl Amari

“The Truth and Life Audio Bible: New Testament” was granted an Imprimatur by the Vatican, and features a foreword by Pope Benedict XVI.

Catherine I of Russia

At the age of three Marta was taken by an aunt and sent to Marienburg (the present-day Alūksne in Latvia, near the border with Estonia and Russia) where she was raised by Johann Ernst Glück, a Lutheran pastor and educator who was the first to translate the Bible into Latvian.

Declaration of Facts

Members' homes were frequently searched by police for incriminating literature and on April 24 the International Bible Students Association (IBSA) headquarters in Magdeburg was briefly occupied by police.

Derek Prince

During this time Prince was becoming widely known through his cassette-tape Bible lectures, and he became involved with the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.

Divers hands

This usage of the word Divers can be found in the Bible and other older texts, but it is not commonly used in modern English.

Eyeless in Gaza

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

Fécamp Bible

Robert Branner has attributed the initial in the Bible to four anonymous artists.

Federalism

Some Christians argue that the earliest source of political federalism (or federalism in human institutions; in contrast to theological federalism) is the ecclesiastical federalism found in the Bible.

Galilee, Rhode Island

The village is named after the fishing village of Galilee, the hometown of Jesus according to the Bible.

Good News Bible

The Gospel of John - a movie based word-for-word on the Good News Bible.

Guy Lefèvre de la Boderie

Guy Lefèvre de la Boderie (b. near Falaise, Calvados in Normandy, 9 August 1541; d. in 1598 in the house in which he was born) was a French Orientalist, Bible scholar and poet.

Harold C. Washington

, The Feminist Companion to the Bible, 6 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 41-58.

Harry and Tonto

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.

J. I. Packer

Packer served as General Editor of the English Standard Version, an Evangelical revision of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and Theological Editor of the Study Bible version.

Jacobus Latomus

While in prison for charges relating to his translation of the Bible into English, William Tyndale was questioned by Latomus, whose task was to determine that Tyndale's views were heretical and that he would not abandon them.

James Smith Bush

In 1883 he published a collection of sermons called More Words About the Bible, a response to his colleague Heber Newton's book Uses of the Bible.

Jamie Byng

The Pocket Canons (1998) published in partnership with Matthew Darby was Byng's first runaway success: selected books from the Bible individually packaged with new introductions by the Dalai Lama amongst others.

José Alperovich

Some commentators had speculated that Alperovich would not be able to become governor if elected because of the provincial law that required him to give an oath on the Christian Bible.

Joseph MacRory

MacRory taught Scripture and Modern Theology at St Mary's College, Oscott in England until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of Scripture and Oriental Languages at his alma mater of Maynooth College.

Kairos Document

The Bible is commonly understood as a message of hope in the face of oppression; Yahweh will liberate the people (e.g. Ps 74, Ex 3, Ps 12).

King of Kings: The Early Years

Gameplay was split into three games, each illustrating a Bible story relating to the early years of Jesus.

Kogutud teosed. 1968–1980. Esimene osa.

# "Piiblite kustunud lõhnad" (Doused smells of the Bibles) (Urmas Alender/Viivi Luik) – 2:00 (1974)

Lighthouse Trails Publishing

The company moved its headquarters to Eureka, Montana and launched a new division of Lighthouse Trails Publishing "The Shepherd's Garden", and began creating Shepherd's Organic Bible Verse Tea in order to support their research.

Mark XI

Mark 11 or Mark XI, the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible

Meir Shalev

1985 Bible Now, a book containing interpretations of Hebrew Bible stories from his personal point of view, which first appeared in the newspaper Haaretz.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

The only survivor of the three bibles is the Codex Amiatinus, now in Florence, the oldest complete surviving Bible in the world, which was being carried to Rome by Ceolfrith himself when he died in 716.

Mordechai Yosef Leiner

He presents defenses of various Biblical sins, such as Korach's rebellion, Pinchas's zealotry, and Judah's incident with Tamar.

Muhammad in the Bible

Subsequent Muslim writers have expanded on these arguments and have claimed to identify other references to Muhammad in the text of the Bible, both in the Jewish Tanakh and in the Christian New Testament.

Ralph Read

He was later to teach at "Richmond Temple's Bible College", and thereafter to minister in various AOG churches and, for a time, was editor of the AOG denominational magazine "The Evangel".

Reinhard Bonnke

After graduating from the Bible College of Wales and returning to Germany, Bonnke led a series of crusade meetings in Rendsburg.

Revival Centres International

Some of these "British Israel" Identification includes linking emblems of modern day nations to Israel emblems from the Bible, such as the UK Royal Coat of Arms and the Seal of The President Of The United States Of America.

Shoshana

It is the name of at least two women in the Bible, and via Σουσάννα (Sousanna), it developed into such European names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Suzie and Sanna.

Strong's Concordance

Many scholarly Greek and Hebrew Lexicons (e.g., Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, Thayer's Greek Dictionary, and Vine's Bible Dictionary) also use Strong's numbers for cross-referencing, encouraging hermeneutical approaches to study.

Taddeo Crivelli

The Bible then entered the private collection of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, but after his assassination in 1914, it became part of the imperial library in Vienna.

Tata Esteban

At his wake, former DILG Secretary, former Laguna Governor, former Senator and former NAPOLCOM Chief Joey Lina shared that he and Tata were to due to discuss the production of an anti-drug abuse campaign using the Bible as the most potent weapon against addiction.

Theistic science

These views have been criticised by Christian physicist Howard J. Van Till, who rejects the conflict thesis, for relying on "folk exegesis" in his assessment of the bible's teachings on creation.

Unvarnished New Testament

English-speaking Christians such as Helen Barrett Montgomery, Clarence Jordan, Olaf M. Norlie, Kenneth N. Taylor, Jay P. Green and Richard Francis Weymouth have long expressed dissatisfaction with older, archaic-sounding Bible translations.

Up from Paradise

Undaunted by its failure, he revamped it as a musical, a retelling of God's battle with Lucifer for control of Adam and Eve as chronicled in the Book of Genesis.

Waiting for Godalming

The prime suspects are Colin, God's other son who has been left out of the Bible and Eartha, His wife - who hired Lazlo in the first place to solve the case.

Wild gourd

Citrullus colocynthis, thought to be the wild gourd mentioned in the Bible