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The previous evening, Reverend Parris discovered Betty, some other girls, and his Barbadian slave, Tituba, dancing naked in the forest and engaged in some sort of pagan ritual. The village is rife with rumors of witchcraft and a crowd gathers outside Rev. Parris' house. Parris becomes concerned that the event will cause him to be removed from ...
Francis Sawyer Parris (1707–60) was an English biblical scholar. His editorial textual corrections, italicisations, marginal notes, column headings and cross-references played a major part in updating and standardising the 1611 Authorised King James Version of the Bible.
Samuel Parris (1653 – February 27, 1720) was a Puritan minister in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.Also a businessman and one-time plantation owner, he gained notoriety for being the minister of the church in Salem Village, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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.
The Bible is the world's most published book, with estimated total sales of over five billion copies. [180] As such, the Bible has had a profound influence, especially in the Western world, [181] [182] where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed in Europe using movable type. [183]
Rev. Samuel Parris was tasked by the court with recording by hand the examination of Rebecca Nurse on March 24 and he omitted any testimony from those speaking in her defense. On the reverse side of this record Parris did sheepishly admit "great noises" by the afflicted and "many speakers" prevented him from capturing everything.
She later is called out by Rev. Parris for this and her expression of regret is accepted by the congregation. [3] Pressured by ministers and townspeople to say who caused her odd behavior, Elizabeth Parris identifies Tituba. The girls later accuse Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good of witchcraft.
The names of the books of the Bible can be abbreviated. Most Bibles give preferred abbreviation guides in their tables of contents, or at the front of the book. [ 3 ] Abbreviations may be used when the citation is a reference that follows a block quotation of text.