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The back page can then be turned back to its correct position, thus hiding the spine of the book. Comb binding uses a 9/16" pitch rectangular hole pattern punched near the bound edge. A curled plastic "comb" is fed through the slits to hold the sheets together. Comb binding allows a book to be disassembled and reassembled by hand without damage.
The Binding of Isaac (Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק , romanized: ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaq), or simply "The Binding" (הָעֲקֵידָה , hāʿAqēḏā), is a story from chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah.
Coptic binding or Coptic sewing comprises methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt, the Copts, and used from as early as the 2nd century AD to the 11th century. [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] [ 2 ] The term is also used to describe modern bindings sewn in the same style.
In the Book of Genesis, Jehovah-jireh was the location of the binding of Isaac, where Jehovah told Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham named the place after God provided a ram to sacrifice in place of Isaac. This name, hence, carries the meaning, "The Lord will provide".
The exact translation varies slightly depending on the version of the Bible, but it is generally translated into English as: "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 16:19
A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks , there are further alternatives and additions, such as dust jackets , ring-binding, and older forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional types of hand-binding .
Binding and loosing is originally a Jewish Mishnaic phrase also mentioned in the New Testament, as well as in the Targum. In usage, to bind and to loose simply means to forbid by an indisputable authority and to permit by an indisputable authority. [1] One example of this is Isaiah 58:5–6 which relates proper fasting to loosing the chains of ...
Gutenberg Bible in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Greek New Testament by St Jerome. The text contains emendations from the Parisian Bible tradition, and further divergences. [5]