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The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Questions of Ezra (Christian, but date is imprecise) Revelation of Ezra (Christian and sometime before 9th cent. AD) Apocalypse of Sedrach (present form is Christian from c. 5th cent. with earlier sources) 2 (Syriac Apocalypse of) Baruch (Jewish, from c. 100 AD) 3 (Greek Apocalypse of) Baruch (Christian utilizing Jewish sources, c. 1st–2nd ...
The phrase "fear and trembling" is frequently used in New Testament works by or attributed to Paul the Apostle (painted here by Peter Paul Rubens).. Fear and trembling (Ancient Greek: φόβος και τρόμος, romanised: phobos kai tromos) [1] is a phrase used throughout the Bible and the Tanakh, and in other Jewish literature.
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.
Pleonexia, being mentioned in the New Testament in Colossians 3 verses 1–11 and Luke 12 verses 13–21, has been the subject of commentary by Christian theologians. William Barclay [ 5 ] describes pleonexia as an "accursed love of having", which "will pursue its own interests with complete disregard for the rights of others, and even for the ...
Ginza Rabba (The Great Treasure, also known as The Book of Adam) (DC 22) Qulasta (Canonical Prayerbook) (DC 53) (see also list of Qulasta prayers) Sidra d-Nišmata (Book of Souls) (first part of the Qulasta) ʿNiania (The Responses) (part of the Qulasta) Drašâ d-Jōhânā (Mandaean Book of John, also known as The Book of Kings)
The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.