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A sample page from Biblia Hebraica Quinta (Deuteronomy 1:1–11). Note the newly implemented and fully collated Masorah magna between the main text and the critical apparatus. The Biblia Hebraica Quinta Editione, abbreviated as BHQ or rarely BH 5, is the fifth edition of the Biblia Hebraica.
The Assembleias de Deus have a non-territorial episcopal polity (called ministério) [4] where each ministério is a directed by a mother church under a pastor-president (also called bishop or apostle in various ministérios) with affiliated congregations and preaching points.
A sample page from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Genesis 1,1-16a).. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated as BHS or rarely BH 4, is an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex, and supplemented by masoretic and text-critical notes.
Casa Publicadora das Assembléias de Deus (CPAD; Portuguese for Publishing House of the Assemblies of God) is a Brazilian Christian publishing house. Its activities officially began in March 1940, when it gave its legal organization in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
The Greek ta biblia ("the books") was "an expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred books". [6] The biblical scholar F. F. Bruce notes that John Chrysostom appears to be the first writer (in his Homilies on Matthew , delivered between 386 and 388 CE) to use the Greek phrase ta biblia ("the books") to describe both the Old and ...
According to the introduction to the seventeenth edition: "Here we kept, in broad outlines, the distribution of the books according to the three categories present in the Jewish or Hebrew bible". [3] The result is that the Christian Community Bible's order is a blend of the Jewish and Catholic order (here represented by the Douay–Rheims Bible ).
The term megillah is most widely used for the book of Esther, even though it is applied to the rest as well. The term megillah is also used in a joking way, in reference to any lengthy story. [6] Eugene H. Peterson's Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work examines the application of the Megillot to Christian pastoral theology. [7] [page needed] p.21.
Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practising their authorities in the dioceses and conferences or synods.Their leadership is both sacramental and constitutional; as well as performing ordinations, confirmations, and consecrations, the bishop supervises the clergy within a local jurisdiction and is the representative both to secular structures and within the hierarchy ...