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77 unusual facts about 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.

Acts of Solomon

:The similarly named Biblical book is located at Song of Solomon.

Acts of the Kings of Israel

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

Aharon Shulov

Shulov's objective was to acquire animals mentioned in the Bible.

Andrzej Siemieniewski

For his motto, Bishop Siemieniewski adopted the words from the Scripture: God Is Love (Latin: Deus Caritas Est).

Aryeh Kasher

He examines the consequences of the Hellenistic influence in the Idumean society, and its implications on their relations with the neighbor Jewish nation, even though in the Bible the Idumean accused in co-operation with Babylon power and the ruin of Jerusalem and the temple in the year 586 BCE.

Beast of Gévaudan

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

Berean Christadelphians

Some of these doctrines are shared with some of the "Unamended Fellowship" (but not the majority Christadelphian group known as the"Central Fellowship"), particularly beliefs on the atonement and what the Bible teaches about human nature (referred to commonly as 'the flesh').

Biblical harmony

A Biblical harmony is a hermeneutic method of analyzing parallel and often disparate accounts within the Bible in an attempt to resolve apparent conflicts and demonstrate its cohesive unity.

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.

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.

Celestine and Etta Tavernier

Celestine is a dedicated Church-goer and spends most of his spare time performing religious readings and educating 'young disciples' in the teachings of the Bible.

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.

Christianity in Ireland

The Word of God is central in the Presbyterian Church, along with prayer and praise.

Chronicles of the Kings of Judah

The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah is a book that gives a more detailed account of the reigns of the kings of ancient Kingdom of Judah than that presented in the Hebrew Bible, and may have been the source from which parts of the biblical account was drawn.

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.

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.

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.

Dives in Misericordia

The Pope traces the message of divine mercy back to earlier books in the Bible.

Dracontius

Opinions differ as to his poetical merits, but, when due allowance is made for rhetorical exaggeration and consequent want of lucidity, his works show considerable vigour of expression, and a remarkable knowledge of the Bible and of Roman classical literature.

Dror Green

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

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.

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.

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.

George Akiyama

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

Glad Tidings

Glad Tidings (full title: Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God) is a free Bible magazine published monthly by the Christadelphians (Brethren in Christ).

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.

Green Grass, Running Water

In addition to these four explaining the "ordinary" events, they also tell a creation story that accounts for why there is so much water; in each creation story, the four encounter a figure from the Bible, as well as the western literary figure from whom each derive his name.

Harold Oldroyd

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

In Our Garden

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

Ioane Shavteli

David can be recognized by allusions to his biblical namesake (from whom the Georgian dynasty of Bagrationi claimed descent) as well as by interweaving words and phrases from the king’s own religious lyrics, the Hymns of Penitence (გალობანი სინანულისანი).

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.

Jerome Cutler

Cutler was one of the content advisors to the cartoon Bible series, The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible, produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios.

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.

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.

Kirrweiler, Kusel

People were to be put in a position to be able to read the Bible for themselves, thereby raising the general level of education.

Laestadian Lutheran Church

The Laestadian Lutheran Church (LLC) is a religious Christian movement, its teachings based on the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions.

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.

Lisa Lashes

Raised a Jehovah's Witness, on Sundays Lisa would attend meetings and knock on neighbors' doors with her parents to hand out The Watchtower and occasionally read from the Bible but her interest waned soon after her parents separated.

Loci Communes

The book lays out Christian doctrine by discussing the "leading thoughts" from the Epistle to the Romans, and these thoughts were intended to guide the reader to a proper understanding of the Bible in general.

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.

Marco Glorious

At the age of five he was mesmerizing crowds with his ability to recite chapters from the Bible with confidence and zeal.

Midrash Taame Haserot ve-Yeterot

The haggadic interpretations are derived for the most part from scattered passages in the Talmud and in the Midrashim, while the arrangement is capricious, the individual words being arranged neither according to the order of the alphabet nor according to the sequence of the books of the Bible.

Minbar

While minbars are akin to many pulpits in elevation and structure (in some churches used by readers of the Bible), they have a function and position more similar to that of a church lectern, being used instead by the minister of religion, the imam, typically for a wider range or readings and prayers.

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.

Nazarene fellowship

That the Bible is the only source of knowledge of God’s will and purpose with the earth; of the Gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Nore Stave Church

The walls and ceiling of the interior are decorated with murals, among them scenes from the Bible presented as riddles.

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.

Old Deuteronomy

His name derives from Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, which shares the central element of law with the character (who is a magistrate).

OpenLP

It includes the ability to search through lyrics for certain words; search for Bible verses in the Bible; display lyrics and Bible verses in a friendly way to the congregation; interact with Microsoft PowerPoint to provide users with an easy way to control Powerpoint.

Palanki Venkata Ramachandra Murthi

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

Patrociño Barela

He was driven to carve and he chose subjects from the Bible or imaginary subjects which usually had a spiritual nature.

Prince Bakar of Kartli

The prince engaged in cultural enterprises initiated by his father; he helped revive the Georgian printing house in Moscow and sponsored publication of The Bible in Georgian in 1743.

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.

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.

Samson's Foxes

The unit's name is derived from the Bible, where the Judge Samson is described as having attached torches to the tails of three hundred foxes, leaving the panicked beasts to run through the fields of the Philistines, burning all in their wake.

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.

Songs That Jesus Said

All songs on the album were written jointly by Keith Getty and Kristyn Getty, and most are based on specific passages of the Christian Bible, especially the four Gospels.

St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School

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

Tabrimmon

Tabrimmon, also as Tabrimon, also as Tabremon in Douay-Rheims, was an Aramaean king, but there is little known about him.

Tancred Tancredi

He ascribes to him several works of as yet unpublished literature: commentaries on the Scriptures and on Peter Lombard's Book of Sentences.

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 Christadelphian

The Christadelphian is a Bible magazine published monthly by The Christadelphian Magazine and Publishing Association (CMPA).

The Christadelphian Tidings of the Kingdom of God

The Christadelphian Tidings of the Kingdom of God (The Tidings) is a Bible magazine published monthly by the Christadelphians (Brethren in Christ).

Valley of the Shadows

The title is perhaps inspired by Psalm 23 in the Bible, but is probably more likely to be a reference to 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' in Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress', which was itself inspired by the Psalm.

Viborg, Denmark

The cathedral is famous for its many paintings by Danish painter Joakim Skovgaard, which depict stories from 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.


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.

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.

Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church

The Grace Bible Collage in Nakuru exist to train pastors and the other training location is Trinity Bible Institute in Meru.

Antonio Martini

Cardinal Carlo Vittorio Amedeo delle Lanze, knowing that Pope Benedict XIV desired a good version of the Bible in the contemporary Tuscan language, urged Martini to undertake the work.

Asimov's Guide to the Bible

Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1967 and 1969, covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively.

Bend in the Road

Spencer continued his tradition of recording songs by Elmore James and Homesick James, and also took inspiration from poetry and passages from the Bible.

Bible Review

Bible Review was published by the non-denominational Biblical Archaeology Society and edited by the society's founder Hershel Shanks.

C. Earl Stubbs

In fact, Stubbs pioneered the establishment of the Bible Schools in Bellary and Miyapur.

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.

Chakhei

2. Nazareth Vaih: A street named after Nazareth in the Holy Bible, which is the name of the town in Israel, the place where Jesus Christ was raised up, is somehow an attraction for visitors from outside.

Chapel Christian Academy

The Academy was based on the Bible being the inerrant word of God; creationism was the basis of all scientific teaching at the school.

Christy Marx

She wrote the game bible and most dialogue for The Legend of Alon D'ar for the PlayStation 2 console, and has worked on PC, console and MMO games.

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.

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.

Here Comes the Zoo

"Hands on the Bible" references two Aerosmith songs, "Toys in the Attic" and "Rats in the Cellar", switching the words "attic" and "cellar" to form the lines "Rats in the attic / Toys in the cellar".

International legal theories

In his De jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres ("Three Books on the Law of War and Peace") of 1625, and drawing from the Bible and from the St. Augustine's just war theory, he argued that nations as well as persons ought to be governed by universal principle based on morality and divine justice.

Irvin Baxter, Jr.

According to his website, Mr. Baxter became intensely interested in Bible prophecy at the age of 20, when a visiting evangelist taught that the four beasts of the book of Revelation, chapter four, were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Jerry Lucas

Three of his best sellers are The Memory Book, co-written with Harry Lorayne, his well-known ' Ready, Set, Remember ' the basis of many of his other writings, and Remember the Word, for memorizing portions of the Bible.

Jesus Christ in comparative mythology

Tryggve Mettinger, former professor of Hebrew bible at Lund University, is one of the academics who supports the "dying and rising gods" construct, but he states that Jesus does not fit the wider pattern.

Jewish apocrypha

The Bible states (Gen. xli. 45, 50) that Joseph married the daughter of Potiphar, a priest of On.

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.

Mark XI

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

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

It is, for instance, the title of an essay by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

Mordechai Yosef Leiner

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

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

His great-grandfather, Rev Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin — a seminal work in its day — and he was also the great great grandnephew of Dr Matthew Tindal, the deist and author of 'Christianity as Old as the Creation' (known as the 'deist's bible') and descendant of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Pelagianism

Johann Pupper, also known as Johannes von Goch (c. 1400-1475), an Augustinian, recommended a return to the text of the Bible as a remedy for Pelagianism.

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.

Penrose Methodist Chapel

The Methodist societies established by William O’Bryan (1778-1868) became known as the Bible Christians, and the first formed at Launcells and Shebbear along the Devon and Cornwall border largely on agricultural land.

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".

Religion in Tibet

Work on Bible translations into Tibetan resulted in a Bible in Tibetan script in 1948, but this specific dialect is now understood by very few Tibetans, so new works are in progress.

Republic, Missouri

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

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

This program was included (in a slightly modified form) in For the Love of God by D. A. Carson (ISBN 0851115896) and is recommended by several Bible publishers, such as the English Standard Version and the New English Translation.

Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony

Shincheonji received notice in European press since its Bible seminars were held in May, 2012; Shincheonji chairman Lee Man-Hee embarked on a 12-day journey through Europe.

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.

The Great Gig in the Sky

During 1972 performances of The Dark Side of the Moon song cycle (prior to the album being recorded), it was simply an organ instrumental accompanied by spoken word samples from the Bible and snippets of speeches by Malcolm Muggeridge, a British writer known for his conservative religious views.

The Green Bible

Before the biblical text, the Green Bible provides an introduction from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and essays from Brian McLaren, Cal DeWitt, Barbara Brown Taylor, Pope John Paul II, Ellen Davis, N. T. Wright, Ellen Bernstein, Matthew Sleeth, James Jones, and Gordon Aeschliman.

The Respectable Burgher

The "higher criticism" that Hardy refers to is criticism that refutes the literal truth of Biblical Scripture, and gives scientific evidence against the supposed revealed truth of the Bible.

The Steady On Tour

Since 1998 was the height of the whole Girl Power movement, the girls, who were known for parodying secular songs in their concerts, built a whole set about the women of the Bible, parodying songs by Aretha Franklin, The Chordettes, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper and the Spice Girls.

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

The Story of Jacob and Joseph is a 1974 American historical drama television film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the biblical Book of Genesis with a screenplay written by Ernest Kinoy.

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.

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.