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Bible portal. Christianity portal. v. t. e. Papyrus 13, 3rd or 4th century AD, with the Epistle to the Hebrews in the original Koine Greek. The Epistle to the Hebrews[ a ] (Koinē Greek: Πρὸς Ἑβραίους, romanized:Pròs Hebraíous, lit. 'to the Hebrews') [ 3 ] is one of the books of the New Testament. [ 4 ] The text does not mention ...
The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld 1860. The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible). Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: apokalypsis, meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'.
The Blue Letter Bible (BLB) project is an initiative of Sowing Circle, a United States–based, non-denominational Christian ministry that has created a study Bible and Bible study tools stated to "make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding". [1] The study Bible and associated resources are provided in CD format, via ...
A number of Bible scholars consider the term Worm ' to be a purely symbolic representation of the bitterness that will fill the earth during troubled times, noting that the plant for which Wormwood is named, Artemisia absinthium, or Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, is a known biblical metaphor for things that are unpalatably bitter. [13][14][15][16]
The International Critical Commentary (or ICC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Old Testament and New Testament. It is currently published by T&T Clark, now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. Initially started over one hundred years ago, the International Critical Commentary series has been a highly regarded academic ...
Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation, both theory and methodology, for all forms of communication, nonverbal and verbal. [1] While Jewish and Christian biblical ...
e. Historicism is a method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which associates biblical prophecies with actual historical events and identifies symbolic beings with historical persons or societies; it has been applied to the Book of Revelation by many writers. The Historicist view follows a straight line of continuous fulfillment of ...
The Number of the Beast Is 666 by William Blake. The number of the beast (Koinē Greek: Ἀριθμὸς τοῦ θηρίου, Arithmós toû thēríou) is associated with the Beast of Revelation in chapter 13, verse 18 of the Book of Revelation. In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the number of ...