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  2. Appendectomy - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded successful appendectomy was performed in September 1731 by English surgeon William Cookesley on Abraham Pike, a chimney sweep. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The second was on December 6, 1735, at St. George's Hospital in London, when French surgeon Claudius Amyand described the presence of a perforated appendix within the inguinal hernial ...

  3. Biblical archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Although both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are taken into account, the majority of the study centers around the former. [ 1 ] The term biblical archaeology is used by Israeli archaeologists for popular media or an English speaking audience, in reference to what is known in Hebrew as " Israeli archaeology ", and to avoid using the term ...

  4. Biblical studies - Wikipedia

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    The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, with possible Aramaic undertones, as was the first translation of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Septuagint or Greek Old Testament. Therefore, Hebrew, Greek and sometimes Aramaic continue to be taught in most universities, colleges and seminaries with strong programs in biblical studies.

  5. Historical-grammatical method - Wikipedia

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    The historical-grammatical method is not the only method based on a literal reading of the Bible. Among other methods are the exegesis of the ancient School of Antioch, the approach of the Karaites, the Golden-age Spanish Jewish rationalism, some scholastics like the School of St. Victor, the philogical method of the Reformers, the Protestant ...

  6. History of surgery - Wikipedia

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    Since humans first learned how to make and handle tools, they have employed their talents to develop surgical techniques, each time more sophisticated than the last; however, until the Industrial Revolution, surgeons were incapable of overcoming the three principal obstacles which had plagued the medical profession from its infancy—bleeding ...

  7. Archaeological Study Bible - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological Study Bible uses the New International Version translation of the Bible text and was edited by Walter Kaiser, Jr. and Duane Garrett. It has been noted as surpassing Zondervan's NIV Study Bible which had been the top-selling study Bible for more than twenty years, [1] and was awarded the 2007 Gold Medallion Book Award for Bibles. [2]

  8. Baptism in early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In the close of his comprehensive 2009 study, Baptism in the Early Church, [161] Everett Ferguson devoted four pages (457–60) to summarizing his position on the mode of baptism, expressed also in his The Church of Christ of 1996, [162] that the normal early-Christian mode of baptism was by full immersion.

  9. The Wesley Study Bible - Wikipedia

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    It was first published on 1 February 2009 by Abingdon Press.This initial release was a New Revised Standard Version edition of the Bible, without the Apocrypha books. [2] In November 2012, The Wesley Study Bible was published in the Common English Bible (CEB) translation (also without the Apocrypha.)