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80 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").

Acts of Solomon

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

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.

All Saints' Church, Wittenberg

Above the doors is a painting that portrays Luther on the left with a German Bible, and Philipp Melanchthon on the right, with the Augsburg Confession, the main confession of faith in the Lutheran Church which was formed by Luther and Melanchthon.

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.

Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules

The Mishnat ha-Middot has nothing in common with the Baraita cited by the old scholars under that name: for the citations leave no doubt that the Baraita, even in its mathematical parts, was founded on the Bible; whereas the Mishnat ha-Middot is a purely secular work, and, possibly, it drew upon the same source as did Mohammed b. Musa, the oldest Arabic mathematician.

Bartolomé Carranza

Returning to Valladolid, he acted as censor (cualificador) of books (including versions of the Bible) for the Inquisition.

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').

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.

Bill Phipps

He said that what is important is not so much whether or not the Bible is a literal historical record but the teachings and example of Jesus.

Book of the Kings of Israel

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

Boswellia

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

Brendan McKay

Outside of this specialty, McKay is best known for his collaborative work with a group of Israeli mathematicians that criticizes the Bible code hypothesis by arguing that the patterns in the Bible that supposedly indicate some hidden message from a divine source or have predictive power can be just as easily found in other works, such as War and Peace.

Caetano Pinho

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

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.”

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.

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.

David Kossoff

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

Deacon White

To top it all off, in the rough-and-tumble 19th-century baseball era, White really was a nonsmoking, Bible-toting, church-going deacon.

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.

Derekh Hamelekh

The song deals with the singers' joy on traveling down "The King's Road" - a Biblical reference.

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.

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.

Echthroi

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

Erika Timm

Her most important contribution to the domain, the book ‘Historische jiddische Semantik’ on which she worked about twenty years (published in 2005), focuses on the Yiddish translations of the Bible compiled between about 1400 and 1750.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

Judah ben David Hayyuj

He furnishes a list of these verbs, together with their various forms occurring in the Bible.

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.

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.

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.

Miracle of the gulls

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

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.

A Hebrew word מחמדים (MHMDYM, read as maħǎmaddim) appears once in the Hebrew Bible, at Song of Solomon 5:16, where it is translated into English as "desirable" or "lovely".

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.

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.

Petrus Riga

He is known for his work Aurora, which is a commentary on the Bible with emphasis on allegorical and moral interpretation.

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.

Republic, Missouri

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

Ricardo Lacsamana

He copes with contemporary problems such as flood, population explosion, Fil-American relations, women's liberation, poverty, the respective roles of the young and old in society, and with modern interpretations of the Bible.

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.

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.

Senath, Missouri

It is named after an early settler, Asenath Douglass, who was commonly called Senath and in whose family her Bible-derived name Asenath was pronounced with a long "e" and with stress on the second syllable.

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. 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.

Stephen Joseph Donahue

Following his return to New York, his first assignment was as an instructor of Sacred Scripture and Latin at Cathedral College, where he also served for a time as prefect of discipline.

The Christadelphian

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

The Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong

The Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong is named after the Good Samaritan, who is a biblical character who was generous and benevolent to help people in difficulty described in the Bible.

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.

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.


1614 Low German Bible

The coat of arms of Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein also appears in the 1614 Bible on the back cover.

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.

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.

Baptist Bible Fellowship International

In 1948, George Beauchamp Vick (Norris' co-pastor in Detroit, Michigan) became president of the World Baptist Fellowship owned Bible Baptist Seminary of Fort Worth, Texas.

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 Grove Consolidated District No. 5 School

Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School (also known as Bible Grove School) is a historic school on the south side of Route T. at Bible Grove, Missouri.

Bible translations into Uyghur

After the Swedes had been exiled from Xinjiang, Gustaf Ahlbert, Oskar Hermannson, Dr. Nur Luke (a Uyghur), Moulvi Munshi, and Moulvi Fazil, completed the translation of the Uyghur Bible in India.

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.

Common English Bible

The maps of biblical lands in the Common English Bible are produced by the National Geographic Society.

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.

Hamilton Bible

The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Séguy

A royal preacher, he wrote Panégyriques de saints, Sermons pour les principaux jours du carême, and a Nouvel essai de poésies sacrées, in which he made a French verse translation of Psalms and the songs of the Bible.

Lailah

There is no direct indication of angelic involvement in Abraham's coalition with the Semite kings Chedorlaomer, Tidal, Amraphel and Arioch and their night attack on the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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.

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.

Martin Hyatt

Critic Richard Labonté named A Scarecrow's Bible one of the top ten fiction titles of the year.

Meir Har-Zion

Sharett, who suspected that Dayan had advanced knowledge of the raid, and who deplored such actions, noted critically in his diary: "The dark soul of the Bible has come alive among the sons of Nahalal and 'Ein Harod".

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.

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.

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.

Paul Kaiwi

Kaiwi attended School of the Prophets bible school in Copperas Cove, Texas, then received his Bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997.

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.

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.

Plague Angel

This is due to Morgan and Mortuus' fascination with the Bible, as they are both admit to being Bible experts (despite Marduk's anti-religious stance, Morgan has admitted that he uses the Bible as inspiration solely for its violent content, as he finds death and violence to be most inspirational for Marduk, and that he can "write a complete song mentally by just looking at a violent painting or image").

Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod

Eventually, thanks to influence of newer people in the denomination such as Gordon Clark, discussions began with the Bible Presbyterian Church-Columbus Synod, which included members such as Francis Schaeffer and Jay E. Adams.

Robert Van Kampen

A family foundation owns one of the largest private collections of rare and antique Bibles in North America, presently housed in the Scriptorium at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida.

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.

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.

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).

The Gospel of Filth

The Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence & Darkness (formerly known as "The Gospel of Filth: A Black Metal Bible") is a book by Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley, documenting the history of the band Cradle of Filth and straying further afield to explore their influences and "lay bare the fascinating underworld of contemporary culture".

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.

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.

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

Word of Truth

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