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81 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.

Alfred Hamish Reed

The trust has amassed a collection of rare books and manuscripts for the Dunedin Public Libraries, including one of the most comprehensive collections of manuscripts and early printed Bibles in the Southern Hemisphere.

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.

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.

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.

Bartolomé Carranza

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

Battle of Cajamarca

Discussion ended abruptly when Atahualpa was offered a Bible but "did not know how to open it".

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 accommodation

Biblical accommodation is the adaptation of words or sentences from the Bible to signify ideas different from those expressed therein.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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)

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.

Galilee, Rhode Island

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

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).

God's Stuff

The strip offers a light-hearted yet poignant look at the Bible through the eyes of an imaginative and plucky little girl.

Grandview Park Baptist School

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

Guy P. Harrison

In the book, Harrison touches on various issues of Christian belief, such as the rapture and the reliability of the Bible.

Harold Oldroyd

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Laestadian Lutheran Church

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

László Z. Bitó

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

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.

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.

Old Melbourne Gaol

They could only bathe and change clothes once a week, and attend the chapel on Sundays (with a Bible provided to promote good behaviour).

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.

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").

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.

Pure Heart

References to the heart in this context are abundant in the Bible.

Republic, Missouri

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

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Waking Up Laughing

It was also inspired by her Pastor, who stated "For these times in which we live, you are going to need this book." referring to the Bible.

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".


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 Evangelical Presbyterian Church

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

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.

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.

Arabian wolf

The wolf was frequently mentioned in the Scriptures as an enemy to flocks (Sirach 13:21; Matthew 7:15), and an emblem of treachery and ferocity, and bloodthirstiness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

King of Kings: The Early Years

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

Lucy Mack Smith

Dr. John Stafford of Palmyra, New York interviewed in 1880, remembered that Lucy "had a great deal of faith that their children were going to do something great" and also recalled that Lucy taught her ten children from the Bible.

Lutheran Study Bible

Concordia Publishing House, the publishing house of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod released their The Lutheran Study Bible (TLSB) on September 1, 2009.

Mark XI

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

Martin Hyatt

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

Mordechai Yosef Leiner

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

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.

Quilts of the Underground Railroad

Barbara Brackman, author of Clues in the Calico, considered to be the "Bible of dating antique quilts", has written a book, Facts and Fabrications.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.